Author. She received notoriety as an American author during the second half of the 20th century with her biographies and children's fiction. For children, she wrote in 1965 “Suki and the Invisible Peacock,” which was followed by “Suki and the Old Umbrella,” “Suki and the Magic Sand Dollar,” and “Suki and the Wonder Star" in 1971. Another children's book was “The Blood Summer of 1742-A Colonial Boy's Journal.” In 1970 she wrote the biography of the founder of the colony of Georgia, “James Edward Oglethorpe” with the foreword by novelist Eugenia Price. Other biographies that she wrote were “Theodore Roosevelt: Naturalist, Statesman,” “Martha Berry: A Woman of Courageous Spirit and Bold Dreams,” “George Wyeth of Williamsburg” in 1975, “John Adams,” and “Wilfred Grenfell: Doctor, Explorer” in 1966. She authored Christian books : “A Book of Praise,” “Roads to Reality,” and “The Earth is the Lord's' in 1972, and with introduction by Eugenia Price, “To Me It's Wonderful” in 1975. Born the daughter of Leroy and Audrey Knight Blackburn, she was a 1947 graduate of Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and Northwestern University from 1952 to 1954. She moved to St. Simons Island, Georgia in 1967. In 1961 after a book signing tour, she and her colleague, Eugenia Price, were traveling from Miami, Florida to their homes in Chicago, Illinois when they stopped for the first time at St. Simons Island. Both of them loved the island and decided to live there the rest of their lives. On the back of an used envelope, Blackburn drew a blueprint of the house that would be built on the island, calling it “The Dodge.” Like Price, she had started in radio broadcasting before writing. In 1976 she wrote “Old Mill Day: St. Simons Mill Georgia 1874 to 1908," the saga of Anson Greene Phelps Dodge's lumber mill. Her last work was shortly before her death, “Where Shadows Go.” Several of her children's books have been translated from English to other languages. Miss Blackburn has been the recipient of several Georgia literary awards including Fiction Author of the Year for 1970. She and Price established the Eugenia Price-Joyce Blackburn Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose proceeds fund grants and scholarships, support charitable organizations, and create programs to the excellence of writing. There are chapters of this organization in other states. Twenty-six boxes of her personal papers have been archived at Emory University in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library in Atlanta, Georgia.