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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...
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Meet authors who were born in South Carolina. Learn about their books and writing process.
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Grace Freeman S.C. Poet Laureate 1985 - 1986 Grace Freeman was named poet laureate of South Carolina by Governor Dick Riley in 1985. Grace was born in Greenville County, and her poems, stories, plays...
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Ennis Rees S.C. Poet Laureate 1984 - 1985 In 1984, Ennis Rees was named the third poet laureate of South Carolina by Governor Dick Riley. At the time, Ennis had been an English professor at the...
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Justina Lasley is trying to wake up the world. She is an author and founder of the Institute for Dream Studies. Her mission: to tell everyone in the world of the transformative power of his or her...
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Reading, Analyzing & Writing Dr. Walter Edgar discusses the importance of reading, analyzing and writing.
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Recently beloved author Pat Conroy made his way through South Carolina, doing what he does best, telling wonderful stories. Joined by his biographer, Catherine Seltzer, Conroy and Seltzer entertained...
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Recently beloved author Pat Conroy made his way through South Carolina, doing what he does best, telling wonderful stories. Joined by his biographer, Catherine Seltzer, Conroy and Seltzer entertained...
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This week on Palmetto Scene, we sit down with Pat Conroy and his biographer Catherine Seltzer about his life and works.
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Dr. Robert Duncan Bass (1904-1983) was born in Scranton, South Carolina (Florence County). He received degrees from the University of South Carolina and became one of the nation's leading scholars of...
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William Gilmore Simms was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He was a poet, novelist, and historian whose work was a major force in antebellum Southern literature. He was called one of America’s best...
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Julia Mood was born in Laurens County on Halloween 1880. Her mother died when she was two years old. Julia, as a teenager, attended Converse College and received a Masters degree at an early age...
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The South Carolina Hall of Fame profiles author Pat Conroy.
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Mary Simms Oliphant (1891-1988), granddaughter of novelist and historian William Gilmore Simms, wrote the South Carolina History textbook used in public schools. She was Director of the State Public...
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