Buddy Sullivan

BUDDY SULLIVAN is the author of 35 books and monographs about the history, culture, and ecology of coastal Georgia. Among other awards 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. Sullivan's books include histories of McIntosh and Bryan counties and Sapelo Island, a history of the state of Georgia, and studies relating to the rice and timber economies of the low country in...See more

BUDDY SULLIVAN is the author of 35 books and monographs about the history, culture, and ecology of coastal Georgia. Among other awards 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. Sullivan's books include histories of McIntosh and Bryan counties and Sapelo Island, a history of the state of Georgia, and studies relating to the rice and timber economies of the low country in the nineteenth century. A comprehensive synthesis of Sullivan's research and writing developed over the last forty years is contained in his book, Low Country Historian, A Collective Omnibus, published by the author in 2023. Sullivan was a newspaper sports writer from 1971 to 1985 followed by eight years as editor of the Darien News. He was manager of the Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve from 1993 to 2013 and is now Senior Historian of the Coastal Georgia Historical Society and an independent writer and consultant residing on ancestral tidewater property at Cedar Point, McIntosh County. Sullivan's first edition of this volume about Bryan County was recognized in 2000 as the outstanding book of Georgia history for that year by the Georgia Historical Society. See less