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Molly Jones | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
Molly Jones | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Molly Jones resides in Lake Murray, S.C. She offers advice to young writers on tags, point of view, emotions, and knowing human nature. She also offers four main points to remember when writing...
Mignon Ballard | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
Mignon Ballard | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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This program features Mignon Ballard. When she was growing up in a small Georgia town, she enjoyed telling ghost stories in the local cemetery. Now she shares her stories through her books.
Misty Massey | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
Misty Massey | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Misty Massey was born in Virginia and moved to South Carolina when she was twelve. Her parents were both educators who encouraged her reading addiction, which started in kindergarten! She is known as...
T. Lynn Ocean | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
T. Lynn Ocean | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Living in Myrtle Beach, T. Lynn Ocean is the author of Southern fiction and writes for major newspapers and other publications, including her local paper The Sun News. She has also published novels...
Cassandra King | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
Cassandra King | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Cassandra King is a best-selling novelist whose fiction has won the hearts of readers everywhere, especially in the American South. A native of Alabama, she now lives in the Lowcountry of S.C., where...
Frances Strong | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
Frances Strong | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Frances D. Strong lives with her husband on her parent’s farm in Sumter, South Carolina. Earning a degree in elementary education with a minor in arts from Columbia College, she did not find that her...
Dorothea Benton Frank | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
Dorothea Benton Frank | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Born and raised on Sullivan’s Island, Dorothea Benton Frank is the New York Times best-selling author of Bulls Island, published in 2008, and many other works that use South Carolina as a backdrop...
Tamar Myers | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
Tamar Myers | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Of Amish background, Tamar Myers now lives in our state and is the author of several Pennsylvania Dutch mysteries, including Custard’s Last Stand, The Hand that Rocks the Ladle, Between a Wok and Hard...
Nancy Rhyne | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
Nancy Rhyne | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Nancy Rhyne resides in the capital city of South Carolina, after spending most of her adult life in the Lowcountry of our state. She began writing as a way to overcome a horrible experience she had in...
Kate Salley Palmer | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
Kate Salley Palmer | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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This program features Kate Salley Palmer. A native of Orangeburg, she started her career while at USC as the cartoonist for The Gamecock. Her cartoon strip, "Terrible Tom and the Boys", caricatured...
Kathryn Wall | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
Kathryn Wall | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Kathryn Wall wrote her first story at the age of six and then decided to take a few decades off! After growing up in a small town in northeastern Ohio and attending college in both Ohio and...
Idella Bodie | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
Idella Bodie | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Born in Ridge Spring and living most of her life in the Aiken area, Idella Bodie, who holds a degree in English from Columbia College, has been writing for young readers for more than thirty years...
Kwame Dawes | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
Kwame Dawes | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Born in Ghana in 1962, Kwame Dawes grew up and spent his early adult life in Jamaica. Dawes is a Distinguished Poet-In-Residence, Louis Frye Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts, and Founder/Executive...
Dori Sanders | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
Dori Sanders | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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This program features Dori Sanders. A native of Gilbert, S.C., a tiny community in York County, her family operates one of the oldest African American farms in the region. Her father, a former...
Dinah Johnson | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
Dinah Johnson | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Born in Charleston, Dinah Johnson is a graduate of Spring Valley High School in Columbia, went to college at Princeton University, and earned a Ph.D. from Yale University. Now a resident of Columbia...
Carla Damron | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
Carla Damron | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Born in Sumter, Carla Damron now lives just outside Columbia. She draws on her experiences as a Southerner and a social worker with over twenty years in the mental health system, where she says, her...
C. Hope Clark | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
C. Hope Clark | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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C. Hope Clark lives in Chapin, S.C. Hope has one Oepington and one Dominiquer Hen as her pets and is the managing editor for fundsforwriters.com. She is a mystery writer and discusses techniques she...
Pulitzer Prize Winners in South Carolina: Commentary
Pulitzer Prize Winners in South Carolina: Commentary

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From the Jazz Age to the Digital Age: Pulitzer Prize Winners in South Carolina - Celebrating Pulitzer Commentary with Kathleen Parker and Jim Hoagland, Moderated by Charles Bierbauer. Two Washington...
Pulitzer Prize Winners in South Carolina: Reporting
Pulitzer Prize Winners in South Carolina: Reporting

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From the Jazz Age to the Digital Age: Pulitzer Prize Winners in South Carolina - Celebrating Pulitzer Public Service Journalism with the Charleston Post and Courier Journalists Natalie Caula-Hauff...
Pulitzer Prize Winners in South Carolina: Literature
Pulitzer Prize Winners in South Carolina: Literature

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From the Jazz Age to the Digital Age: Pulitzer Prize Winners in South Carolina - Celebrating Pulitzer Novelist Julia Peterkin. Julia Mood Peterkin was South Carolina’s first Pulitzer Prize-winning...
Morihiko Nakahara, Conductor | Original SC
Morihiko Nakahara, Conductor | Original SC

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Since 1964, the South Carolina Philharmonic has been performing and promoting high-quality, professional symphonic music for the community. Morihiko Nakahara is known for his charismatic presence on...
Learning About the Stage and Auditions | Artopia
Learning About the Stage and Auditions | Artopia

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Learning About the Stage: The Green Room where actors wait to go onstage, or rest between scenes. Why is it called a Green Room? Apparently no one really knows, although there are several theories...