Sidney Lanier
This celebrity goo was created by player Kelly Lee.
Scott Hardie provided the source image, gooed image, category, and difficulty, wrote the clue, and wrote the explanation.
publication date: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 (part of Round XVII)
category: 
Literature
clue: Tiger-lilies in Chattahoochee? He was just makin' it up.
explanation: Lanier wrote the novel Tiger-Lilies. His most famous poem was "Song of the Chattahoochee." He was born in Macon ("makin'"), Georgia. more…
solved by: Matthew Preston, Denise Sawicki, Mike Eberhart, Aaron Fischer, and Kelly Stokes
trivia: Though Scott had removed requestor Kelly Lee from the game as an active player (they were a couple until she dumped him), he decided to grant this last request of hers as a send-off, and because it was just the difficulty needed for a tiebreaker.
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