Alexandra Ripley





Alexandra Ripley

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born
January 08, 1934 in Charleston, South Carolina, The United States

died
January 10, 2004

gender
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Alexandra Ripley was an American writer best known as the author of Scarlett, the sequel to Gone with the Wind. Her first novel was Who's the Lady in the President's Bed?. Charleston, her first historical novel, was a bestseller, as were her next books On Leaving Charleston, The Time Returns, and New Orleans Legacy. Scarlett received some bad reviews, but was very successful nonetheless. She attended the elite Ashley Hall, in Charleston, South Carolina, and Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.

She died in Richmond, Virginia, and is survived by two daughters from her first marriage to Leonard Ripley, a son in law and granddaughter, Alexandra Elizabeth.

Ripley has also published works under the name B.K. Ripley.


Average rating: 3.16 · 19,822 ratings · 1,504 reviews · 14 distinct works
Scarlett
3.11 of 5 stars 3.11 avg rating — 17,511 ratings — published 1990 — 56 editions
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Scarlett: The Sequel to Mar...
3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 1,233 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions
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Charleston
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 275 ratings — published 1981 — 8 editions
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On Leaving Charleston
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 249 ratings — published 1984 — 7 editions
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New Orleans Legacy
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 228 ratings — published 1987 — 7 editions
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From Fields of Gold
3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 225 ratings — published 1994 — 8 editions
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A Love Divine
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions
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Scarlett Part 1 of 2
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions
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The Time Returns
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions
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Virginia: Roman
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1995
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More books by Alexandra Ripley…
“You belong with me, Scarlett, haven't you figured that out? And the world is where we belong, all of it. We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only half alive. We can go anywhere, and as long as we're together, it will belong to us. But, my pet, we'll never belong to it. That's for other people, not for us.”
Alexandra Ripley, Scarlett

“If only' repeated again and again in her head like a battering ram...'if only' could break your heart.”
Alexandra Ripley, Scarlett

“But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've got left. Everything is that minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.”
Alexandra Ripley, Scarlett

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