Author Biography
Buddy Sullivan, a fifth-generation coastal Georgian and native of Savannah and McIntosh County, has researched and written about the history, culture and ecology of coastal Georgia for over thirty years. He is the author of sixteen books and monographs and is in frequent demand as a lecturer on a variety of coastal historical topics. He is a recipient of the Governor s Medal in the Humanities from the Georgia Humanities Council in recognition of his literary and cultural contributions to the state. Mr. Sullivan s books include Georgia: A State History, and two comprehensive histories, Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater, and From Beautiful Zion to Red Bird Creek. The latter volume received the Georgia Historical Society s Lilla M. Hawes Award for Georgia s outstanding work of local history. In addition, he has written several books on nineteenth century agriculture, focusing on rice cultivation and plantation management, and High Water on the Bar, covering the economic and maritime aspects of the post-Civil War coastal lumber industry. His most recent book is A Georgia Tidewater Companion: Essays, Papers and Some Personal Observations on 30 Years of Research in Coastal Georgia History, containing the author s memoirs and family legacy in McIntosh County, along with his research methodology from 1985 to 2015. Sullivan has prepared a new history, Sapelo: People and Place on a Georgia Sea Island, to be published in early 2017 by the University of Georgia Press. His paper, The First Conservationists? Northern Money and Lowcountry Georgia, 1866-1930, will appear in the forthcoming University of Georgia Press volume, Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture: Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast. Sullivan is also a contributor to the online New Georgia Encyclopedia, and the UGA Press volume, The New Georgia Guide. He was manager of the Sapelo Island Research Reserve from 1993 to 2013 and is now an independent consultant.
