Alexandra Ripley, née Braid (January 8, 1934 – January 10, 2004) was an American writer best known as the author of Scarlett (1991), the sequel to Gone with the Wind.
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Ripley was thrice wed; to Leonard Ripley, an early partner and recording engineer at Elektra Records, Thomas Garlock, and John Graham (1926-2007), a former professor at The University of Virginia, from whom she was separated at the time of her death.
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She attended the elite Ashley Hall, in Charleston, South Carolina, and Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Ripley's Believe It or Not! | Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy | Alexandra Palace | Princess Alexandra | Alexandra of Denmark | Alexandra | Alexandra Burke | Crewe Alexandra F.C. | Ripley | Queen Alexandra | Robert Ripley | Royal Alexandra Hospital | Alexandra Bridge | Royal Alexandra Theatre | Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps | Alexandra Park | Alexandra Lamy | Alexandra Juhasz | Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse) | Ripley's Believe It or Not | Alexandra Shulman | Alexandra Paul | Alexandra of Yugoslavia | Alexandra Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn | Alexandra Aikhenvald | William Z. Ripley | Tom Ripley | South Ripley Junior/Senior High School | Sidney Dillon Ripley | Ripley Township, Morrison County, Minnesota |
The character also appears in the 1991 book Scarlett, a sequel to Gone with the Wind written by Alexandra Ripley, and in Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig.