Annie R. Blount

Annie R. Blount (pen names, various, including Jennie Woodbine; 1839–unknown) was a poet, short story writer, and newspaper editor of the American South. She began writing at an early age, and many of her juvenile productions appeared in print under various signatures. She received a prize offered by a literary paper published in New Bern, North Carolina, for "the best story by any American writer".

Early life and education Annie R. Blount was born in Richmond County, Virginia, on June 22, 1839. Blount's mother died after the family removed to Augusta, Georgia.

Until the age of 13, Blount was educated entirely at the country schools until the age of 13, when she joined the junior class of the Methodist Female College at Madison, Georgia. She graduated from the college at the age of 17 with the highest honors the institution could confer, the president stating to the trustees and audience that she was the most perfect scholar he had ever graduated.

Blount won several prizes for her poems and novelettes.

Blount married John T. Perdue on July 9, 1871. He died in Georgia, October 1876.

Awards and honors 1859, gold medal valued at a , short prose sketch, "The Sisters", awarded by the Newbern Gazette. 1863, Best Poems not less than 60 lines, "Under the Lamp-Light", awarded by Southern Field and Fireside

Selected works Poems, August, Georgia: H. D. Norell, 1860