James Edward Oglethorpe: Foreword by Eugenia Price
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Book details
- Author
- Eugenia Price
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Biography & Autobiography › Historical
History › United States › Colonial Period (1600-1775) - Topics
- colonial America · Georgia history · biography · prison reform · Creek Indians · British Parliament · founding of Georgia · Jacobite history
- ISBN-13
- 9781577363323 (Paperback)9781630263645 (Hardcover)
About the authors
JOYCE KNIGHT BLACKBURN was an American author and broadcaster who wrote fourteen books, including biographies of James Edward Oglethorpe, Theodore Roosevelt, Martha Berry, George Wythe, and John Adams, as well as the Suki series of children’s fiction.
Blackburn received Georgia literary awards including Fiction Author of the Year for 1970. A graduate of Moody Bible Institute, she worked for over two decades at Moody’s radio station WMBI. Her papers are archived at Emory University.
Joyce lived on St. Simons Island, Georgia.
EUGENIA PRICE was an American author of dozens of books, including religious titles and bestselling historical novels set in the American South, among them the St. Simons Trilogy, the Savannah Quartet, and the Florida Trilogy.
Price began her career writing radio dramas and founded her own production company before converting to Christianity in 1949 and turning to inspirational writing. She moved to St. Simons Island, Georgia, in the mid-1960s.