She was the daughter of Marvin Rivers, a lawyer, and Katherine, a secretary at Campbell High School. Siddons was born Sybil Anne Rivers on January 9, 1936, in Atlanta and reared in Fairburn. Her novel Downtown (1994) recreates her early career as a writer and editor for Atlanta magazine, and her most commercially successful book, Peachtree Road (1989), portrays modern Atlanta’s white elite on the eve of the civil rights era. She was also the author of two books of nonfiction, Go Straight on Peachtree (1978), a McDonald City Guide to Atlanta, and John Chancellor Makes Me Cry (1975), a series of essays patterned around the changing seasons in Atlanta. Two novels, Homeplace (1987) and Nora, Nora (2000), take place in a fictionalized version of Fairburn, her hometown, in Fulton County. Though all of her twenty books are set in Georgia or concern southerners living elsewhere, Anne Rivers Siddons was best known for books about Atlanta and its environs.
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