![]() ![]() “It has been said that growing up in the South and becoming a writer is like spending your life riding in a wagon, seated in a chair that is always facing backwards,” Miss Burns said. To create the novel, Miss Burns played journalist, interviewing her parents, aunts and cousins. The town of “Cold Sassy” was modeled on the actual small town of Commerce where her father had grown up. Miss Burns modeled the grandfather character and his May-December romance in her novel on her great-grandfather, who had married a young storekeeper three weeks after his first wife’s death. ![]() If you can’t vacuum and you can’t go anywhere, you have more time than you ever knew existed.” Then, when I was on chemotherapy, the hematologist told me I couldn’t go anywhere. “I had a head start on giving up things the doctor I went to about arthritis said I shouldn’t vacuum anymore. ![]() “You must decide what you will give up in order to have the time and energy to do it,” she said. Many would-be authors never complete books, she observed, because they never make the time to write. Miss Burns had written nonfiction articles for several years, first for Atlanta Weekly, a former Sunday magazine of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and later as a free-lance writer and advice columnist for the Atlanta Constitution. ![]()
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