Marian McCamy Sims
Marian McCamy Sims | |
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| Born | October 16, 1899 Dalton, Georgia |
| Died | July 8, 1961 (aged 61) Charlotte, North Carolina |
| Occupation | Writer (novelist) |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 20th century |
| Genre | Fiction, romance |
| Spouse |
Frank Knight Sims (m. 1927) |
Marian McCamy Sims, (October 16, 1899 – July 9, 1961) was an American writer of short stories and fiction.
Biography
[edit]Sims was born in Dalton, Georgia in 1899. Her parents were Julian McCamy and Grace Gardner. She attended school at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia.[1] After graduating in 1920 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, she taught history and French at Dalton High School. After four years of teaching, she became a copy writer for an advertising firm.[2] In 1927 she married Frank Knight Sims and they moved first to Greensboro, North Carolina and then finally settling in Charlotte, North Carolina.[3]
In 1931, she won a short story writing contest which began a twenty year career of writing.[1] Sims published several short stories in magazines such as Ladies' Home Journal, Liberty, McCall's, and The Saturday Evening Post.[1]
Her main body of work consisted of seven novels. Sims felt that too many of the novels written about the South were about "sharecroppers, Negroes, and backward-looking aristocrats."[3] So she concentrated on writing novels concerning her own social stratum, that being the middle to upper class Southern culture.[3] During World War II, her husband served as a naval officer and she focused on short stories for magazines. She said, "it could be written more or less on the run, while I was waiting instructions to set out for California--or heaven knows where." Many of these stories dealt with the theme of dislocation during the war.[3]
In 1949, she wrote the lyrics for a religious work called Peace: A Sacred Cantata by Lamar Stringfield. She died of cancer in Charlotte in 1961.[1]
Works
[edit]- Morning Star, (1934)
- Fence, (1936)
- Call It Freedom, (1937)
- Memo to Timothy Sheldon, (1938)
- The City on the Hill, (1940)
- Beyond Surrender, (1942)
- Storm before Daybreak, (1946)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Parker, David B. (August 14, 2008). "Marian McCamy Sims (1899-1961)". New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- ^ Walser, Richard (1994). "Marian Sims". NCpedia, State Library of North Carolina.
- ^ a b c d Warfel, Harry Redcay (1951). American Novelists of Today. American Book Company. p. 387.
Further reading
[edit]- J. Murrey Atkins Library: Marian McCamy Sims Papers, 1922-1961, The University of North Carolina, Charlotte NC
External links
[edit]- Works by Marian McCamy Sims at Faded Page (Canada)
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