Photos: Anne Rivers Siddons through the years

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Anne Rivers Siddons, best-selling author of “Peachtree Road” and a member of the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, died on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019.

970204 ATLANTA,GA: Novelist Anne Rivers Siddons in her 'writing shack'. The stucture sits behind her home and has a pool & hot tub in the rear. 2-4-97 (WILLIAM BERRY/photo)

Enjoying the company of her cat Buckley, author Anne Rivers Siddons relaxes on the deck of her writing office at her Brookhaven home.

970507 ATLANTA,GA:Author Anne Rivers Siddons in her Buckhead back yard. 05/07/97 (WILLIAM BERRY/photo)

970507 - ATLANTA, GA -- Author Anne Rivers Siddons and her husband, Heyward, in their Buckhead backyard May 7, 1997. (WILLIAM BERRY/AJC photo)

970204 ATLANTA,GA: Novelist Anne Rivers Siddons sits writing at her pool.The pool is behind her 'writing shack'. The stucture sits behind her home. . 2-4-97 (WILLIAM BERRY/photo)

970501- ATLANTA- Thursday (5/1/97) At the Randolph Lucas House Anne Rivers Siddons being given a tour by Atanta Preservation Center executive director George W. Edwards. (AJC Staff Photo/Nick Arroyo) 6/97

980623--CHARLESTON, SC Anne Rivers Siddons (cq) is not moving to Charleston until November, but her thoughts obviously were already there. Her new novel, "Low Country," is set on the South Carolina coast. She is posed in front of the gate to the new home she is in the process of purchasing in Charleston, SC., on Tuesday afternoon, June 23, 1998. (PHOTO BY PAULA ILLINGWORTH (CQ)/AP SPCL TO THE AJC)

970501 - Atlanta, Georgia - Thursday, May 1, 1997, The Randolph Lucas House at Peachtree Rd. and Lindbergh in Buckhead may be demolished to make room for condos.(l to r) The executive director of the Atlanta Preservation Center, George W. Edwards and author Ann Rivers Siddon discussing the fate of the mansion. (AJC Staff Photo/Nick Arroyo)

970529: ATLANTA, Ga: Oxford Books owner Rupert LeCraw greets author Anne Rivers Siddons as she participated in the final book signing at the Pharr Road store on Thursday, May 29, 1997. Siddons expressed her dismay that the store was closing. (LAURA NOEL/SPECIAL)

Anne Rivers Siddons' latest work is a Maine summer house novel --- a genre unto itself, tackling dilemmas of inheritance, entitlement, family secrets and faded glory. Grand Central Publishing

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970204 ATLANTA,GA: Novelist Anne Rivers Siddons in her 'writing shack'. The stucture sits behind her home and has a pool & hot tub in the rear. 2-4-97 (WILLIAM BERRY/photo)

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