Louise Shivers (August 15, 1929 – July 26, 2014) was an American

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and writer-in-residence at Georgia Regents University,

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. Born in 1929 in Stantonsburg and raised in

Wilson, North Carolina Wilson is a city in and the county seat of Wilson County, North Carolina, United States. Located approximately east of the capital city of Raleigh, it is served by the interchange of Interstate 95 and U.S. Route 264. Wilson had an estimated p ...

, Shivers received a

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Fellowship and published two novels. ''Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail'', originally published by Random House, Collins, London, and Editions Belfond in Paris, was named Best First Novel of the Year by ''USA Today'' in 1983 and was made into the feature film '' Summer Heat''. The novel is available from John F. Blair Publishers and Google ebooks. A stage play, ''Faith's Affair'', by Jayetta Slawson based on the novel made its debut in 2006 at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. ''A Whistling Woman'' garnered Shivers the Georgia Author of the Year award in 1993. In January 2013, ''My Shining Hour : A novelist's memoir of World War II'' was published. Shivers died of congestive heart failure in

Evans, Georgia Evans is a census-designated place (CDP) in Columbia County, Georgia, United States. It is a suburb of Augusta and is part of the Augusta metropolitan area. The population was 29,011 at the 2010 census, up from 17,727 at the 2000 census. Evans, ...

on July 26, 2014, aged 84.

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2012 article in ''The Columbia County News-Times'' * https://www.southeastern.edu/news_media/bylion/2006/march_27/index.html#faith 1929 births 2014 deaths Augusta State University American women novelists Novelists from North Carolina 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American memoirists American women memoirists 20th-century American women writers People from Stantonsburg, North Carolina People from Wilson, North Carolina People from Evans, Georgia 21st-century American women Memoirists from North Carolina Memoirists from Georgia (U.S. state) {{US-novelist-1920s-stub