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Libraries, Literature & Learning

A collection about writers, their books, and more. It's all about literature and learning! Visit your school library to learn even more!

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Within this Collection

Collection American Writers
American Writers
Collection Authors of Children's Books
Authors of Children's Books
Collection For Student Writers
For Student Writers
Collection For Young Readers
For Young Readers

Learn about children's books, as well as authors and illustrators of children's books.

Collection Illustrators
Illustrators
Collection Journalism, Broadcasting & Communications
Journalism, Broadcasting & Communications
Collection Poets & Poetry
Poets & Poetry

April is National Poetry Month. View our Poets & Poetry Collection and our Poets Laureate Collection.

Collection Poets Laureate
Poets Laureate

Learn more about and meet poets laureate feature here on Knowitall.

Collection S.C. Authors
S.C. Authors
Collection Shakespeare
Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor.

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Suzette Hawkins | Inside Storytelling

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Suzette Hawkins | Inside Storytelling
Suzette Hawkins views storytelling as a traditional art form. In her family, stories were passed down from generation to generation. She strives to tell tales that lead the listener through the gamut...
T. Lynn Ocean | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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T. Lynn Ocean | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
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

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Cassandra King | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
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...
Emily Smith Pearce | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Emily Smith Pearce | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
In her interview, Emily Smith Pearce discusses the importance of having an outline, sharing your writing with others, and fitting writing into your daily life. She says that she often thought about...
Frances Strong | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Frances Strong | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
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...
Nathalie Dupree | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Nathalie Dupree | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
Ms. Dupree is the author of 14 best-selling cookbooks, selling over half a million copies, and host of over 300 TV shows, which have aired on PBS, The Learning Channel and The Food Network over a span...
Dorothea Benton Frank | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Dorothea Benton Frank | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
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...
Carla Damron | A Literary Tour of South Carolina Lois Battle | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Lois Battle | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
Lois Battle comes to us from Beaufort, S.C., a beautiful coastal town. She shared the importance of learning from your prior writing, reading others work and integrating the five senses into the story...
T. Lynn Ocean | A Literary Tour of South Carolina Orville Vernon Burton | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Orville Vernon Burton | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
A non-fiction writer who has also taught at Clemson University near his home, Vernon Burton has won a number of national and teaching awards. He is the author of more than a hundred articles and the...
Tamar Myers | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Tamar Myers | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
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

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Nancy Rhyne | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
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...
T. Lynn Ocean | A Literary Tour of South Carolina Karin Gillespie | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Karin Gillespie | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
A former lifestyle columnist for the Augusta Chronicle, Karin Gillespie is a national best-selling author whose three novels in the Bottom Dollar Girl series have all been selected for the Literary...
Anthony Varallo | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Anthony Varallo | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
Anthony Varallo lives in Charleston and, since 2005, has been teaching at the College of Charleston. In 2008 he won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for Out Loud. He is the author of three collections...
Rochelle Bailey a.k.a Regan Black | A Literary Tour of South Carolina Kate Salley Palmer | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Kate Salley Palmer | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
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...
Sue Monk Kidd | A Literary Tour of South Carolina Jack Bass | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Jack Bass | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
Jack Bass has authored or co-authored seven nonfiction books about the American South. His works focus on Southern politics, race relations and the role of law in shaping the civil rights era. With a...
Sue Monk Kidd | A Literary Tour of South Carolina Kathryn Wall | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Kathryn Wall | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
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

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Idella Bodie | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
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...
Sue Monk Kidd | A Literary Tour of South Carolina Kwame Dawes | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Kwame Dawes | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
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...
T. Lynn Ocean | A Literary Tour of South Carolina Ben Greer | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Ben Greer | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
A native of Spartanburg, Ben Greer graduated from the University of South Carolina and received his M.A. in Creative Writing from Hollins University. His first book of fiction, Slammer, was published...
Emily Smith Pearce | A Literary Tour of South Carolina Karen Petit | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Karen Petit | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
This program features Karen Petit who is the author of Shandon’s Ivy League Mystery Series for children. In 2008, she published her first book for adults. A Paw on My Heart tells the author’s true...
Dori Sanders | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Dori Sanders | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
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...
Sue Monk Kidd | A Literary Tour of South Carolina Dinah Johnson | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Dinah Johnson | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
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...
Sue Monk Kidd | A Literary Tour of South Carolina Carla Damron | A Literary Tour of South Carolina

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Carla Damron | A Literary Tour of South Carolina
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...