Description
Author: Buddy Sullivan
Publisher: Bookbaby
Published: 08/04/2019
Pages: 148
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781543974331
ISBN10: 1543974333
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,
About the Author
Buddy Sullivan is a fourth-generation coastal Georgian. He has researched and written about the history, culture and ecology of coastal Georgia for 35 years. He is the author of 25 books and monographs and is in frequent demand as a lecturer on a variety of historical topics. He is a recipient of the Governor's Medal in the Humanities from the Georgia Humanities Council in recognition of his literary and cultural contributions to the state. Sullivan's books include Georgia: A State History (2003), and two comprehensive histories, Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater (revised and expanded 2018), for McIntosh County, and From Beautiful Zion to Red Bird Creek (2000), for Bryan County. The latter volume received the Georgia Historical Society's Hawes Award for Georgia's outstanding work of local history. His most recent books are Sapelo: People and Place on a Georgia Sea Island (2017), Environmental Influences on Life & Labor in McIntosh County, Georgia (2018), Thomas Spalding, Antebellum Planter of Sapelo Island (2019), and Blackbeard Island: A History (2019). His new book on the history of Darien, Georgia will be issued in 2020. Sullivan has contributed 12 articles to the online New Georgia Encyclopedia, and he wrote the coastal chapter for The New Georgia Guide. He was manager of the Sapelo Island Research Reserve from 1993 to 2013 and is now an independent writer and consultant.