About the Author

Buddy Sullivan is a fourth generation McIntosh Countian. He is the author of 35 books and monographs about the history, culture, and ecology of coastal Georgia. Sullivan has long been a student of McIntosh County history and has been researching the history of the county, and the Georgia low country, since 1985. 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 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. Sullivan was a newspaper sports writer from 1968 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. Since then, the author has been a lecturer and a consulting historian for researchers. Buddy Sullivan resides on ancestral tidal property in the county at Cedar Point.