Bird Girl

It was sculpted at Ragdale, her family's summer home, and achieved fame when it was featured on the cover of the 1994 non-fiction novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

[9] The Bonaventure Cemetery statue sat virtually unnoticed until 1993, when Random House hired Savannah photographer Jack Leigh to shoot an image for the cover of John Berendt's new book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

He found the sculpture next to a grave on the Trosdal family plot, at the end of his second day of searching, and had to make the shot quickly as dusk approached.

He reportedly spent ten hours in the darkroom adjusting the lighting, giving the photo a moonlit feel and accentuating the halo around the statue's head.

Due to concern about the amount of traffic at the grave site, the Trosdal family removed it from the cemetery and lent it to the Telfair Museums in Savannah in 1997 for public display.

[9] Later, an authorized fiberglass replica was made from the original plaster model for use by Macy's in their display windows; it was later moved to Jack Leigh's studio and then to the Savannah History Museum.

[11] Hayes holds the copyright for the Bird Girl and has actively defended it by filing lawsuits against unauthorized reproductions, especially full-sized replicas.

[9] Warner Bros. produced a film adaptation of Berendt's book in 1997, directed by Clint Eastwood and featuring Kevin Spacey and John Cusack.