Anne George (writer)

Anne George
BornAnne Carroll Bell
(1927-12-04)December 4, 1927
Montgomery, Alabama, United States
DiedMarch 14, 2001(2001-03-14) (aged 73)
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Occupation
Period1980–2001
GenreDetective fiction, Poetry

Anne Carroll George (1927-2001) was an American author and poet. A collection of her poetry, Some of it is True (1993, Curbow Publications), was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1993, and her Southern Sisters mystery series was honored with the coveted Agatha Award. She graduated from Samford University and was Alabama's 1994 state poet and cofounder of Druid Press. George died in 2001 of complications during heart surgery.