Background
Fleming, Berry was born on March 19, 1899 in Augusta, Georgia, United States. Son of Porter and Daisy (Berry) Fleming.
( This account of Augusta, Georgia, from 1736-1791 combin...)
This account of Augusta, Georgia, from 1736-1791 combines historical fact with a novelist's attention to people--in this case to the historical figures of this fledgling colony. Berry Fleming quotes verbatim from primary sources, letting the people speak for themselves in the language of the day. They describe incidents and episodes with the immediacy of the eyewitness, forming a unique portrait of life in colonial Georgia. From the "principal Inhabitants" gathering at the fort with "some Bottles of Wine and some Biscuits" to salute General Oglethorpe on his birthday, to the "numerous train of respectable citizens" gathering to salute President Washington on his approach "to the frontier of the Union," Autobiography of a Colony tells the story of two generations of colonial Augustans.
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Fleming, Berry was born on March 19, 1899 in Augusta, Georgia, United States. Son of Porter and Daisy (Berry) Fleming.
In 1922 he graduated from Harvard University and in 1923 he worked as a reporter for an Augusta newspaper.
He is best known for his 1943 novel Colonel Effingham's Raid. In 1924 he moved to New York City to pursue his career as a writer. His first novel, The Conqueror's Stone, was published in 1927.
He enjoyed a considerable amount of success with a series of novels in the 1930s and 1940s which culminated in his 1943 work Colonel Effingham's Raid, which was made into a film. Afterward his popularity dwindled, and he abandoned writing for nearly two decades after the publication of The Fortune Tellers in 1951. He resumed his work as a novelist with 1973's The Make Believers, but struggled to regain an audience.
He received a resurgence in popularity with the publication of his last novel Captain Bennett's Folly in 1989 just months before his death. The work was favorably reviewed in The New York Times among other publications, and since then many of his earlier neglected novels have been republished with more successful sales than during his lifetime. They then returned to New York for a few years before returning to Augusta in 1938 where Fleming lived for the rest of his life.
For several years he maintained a weekly column in a Georgia newspaper. He also contributed articles to several magazines during his career, including the British satirical magazine Punch. He died of cancer in Augusta at the age of 90 and is buried in the Summerville Cemetery.
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Married Anne Shirley Molloy, 1926. 1 child, Shirley Moragne.