She finished *Cold Sassy Tree* while recovering from cancer and a mastectomy, typing with one hand after a stroke paralyzed the other. Olive Ann Burns spent four years writing her first novel at age 60, drawing on stories her father told about small-town Georgia life in 1906. It sold over a million copies. She died July 4th, 1990, leaving behind a sequel she'd started but couldn't complete—twelve chapters published posthumously as fragments. Sometimes the story you manage to tell is enough.
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