Alexandra Ripley Quotes
And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?
Ripley, Alexandra. Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind. Warner Books, 1991.
She was charged with interfering with the Draft during WWI. She wrote and gave speeches against the war and was convicted according to the laws and court interpretations of the time.
Alexandra Ripley was an American writer best known as the author of Scarlett (1991), written as a sequel to Gone with the Wind. Her first novel was Who's the Lady in the President's Bed? (1972). Charleston (1981), her first historical novel, was a bestseller, as were her next books On Leaving Charleston (1984), The Time Returns (1985), and New Orleans Legacy (1987).