an honorary degree in Doctor of Letters from Oglethorpe University. She lived in Charleston, South Carolina, and spent summers in Maine. Siddons died on September 11, 2019 at the age of 83 in Charleston. Selected works Novels Heartbreak Hotel (1976) The House Next Door (1978) Fox's Earth (1981) Homeplace (1987) Peachtree Road (1988) Kings Oak (1990) Outer Banks (1991) Colony (1992) Hill Towns (1993) Downtown (1994) Fault Lines (1995) Up Island (1997) Low Country (1998) Nora, Nora (2000) Islands (2004) Sweetwater Creek (2005) Off Season (2008) Burnt Mountain (7/2010) The Girls of August (2014) Non-fiction John Chancellor Makes Me Cry (1975) Filmography Heart of Dixie (1989), based on Heartbreak Hotel The House Next Door (TV) (2006) References External links 1936 births 2019 deaths 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American women novelists Auburn University alumni Writers from Charleston, South Carolina Writers from Atlanta People from Fairburn, Georgia 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers Novelists from Georgia (U.S. state) Novelists from South Carolina