Margaret Anne Barnes scrapbook, 1927-1981

Summary

Creator:

Barnes, Margaret Anne

Date:

1927-1981

Extent:

1.25 Linear Feet

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Margaret Anne Barnes scrapbook, ms3972, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

Collection contains items from Margaret Anne Barnes, including newspapers and publications, a baby book, and a scrapbook from her time at the University of Georgia with football game ticket stubs, restaurant menus, sorority rush letters and invitations, souvenirs from Belgium, and a 1946 Clemson vs. Georgia football game program.

Biographical / historical:

Margaret Anne Barnes (1927-2007), a writer known for the book "Murder in Coweta County" which won the Edgar Allen Poe Award and was turned into a 1983 television movie, was a journalism student at the University of Georgia in the mid 1940s. She also wrote "A Buzzard is My Best Friend" and "The Tragedy and the Truimph of Phoenix City, Alabama."

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Scrapbooks.

Names:

University of Georgia. Students

Preferred citation:

Margaret Anne Barnes scrapbook, ms3972, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.