![]() ![]() 1972: Who's the Lady in the President's Bed? (as B.K.Leaving Charleston (1984), The Time Returns (1985), and New Orleans Legacy (1987). She died of natural causes at her home in Richmond, Virginia, is survived by two daughters. Discover Alexandra Ripley Quotes, Novels, Non-Fiction. She was married three times: from 1958 to 1963 to Leonard Ripley, an early partner and recording engineer at Elektra Records, from 1971 to 1981 to Thomas Martin Garlock (1929–2008), and in 1981 to John Vincent Graham (1926–2007), a former professor at the University of Virginia, from whom she was legally separated at the time of her death. Charleston (1981), her first historical novel, was a bestseller, as were her next books On Leaving Charleston (1984), The Time Returns (1985), and New Orleans Legacy (1987).īorn Alexandra Elizabeth Braid in Charleston, South Carolina, she attended the elite Ashley Hall and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1955 with a major in the Russian language. ![]() Her first novel was Who's the Lady in the President's Bed? (1972). Alexandra Ripley at her home (1997) Photo by Osmund GeierĪlexandra Ripley ( née Braid Janu– January 10, 2004) was an American writer best known as the author of Scarlett (1991), written as a sequel to Gone with the Wind. ![]()
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