In this series produced by South Carolina Department of Education and ETV, students will meet nationally recognized authors who call South Carolina home. As they learn about the writing process, students will hear what the authors have to say about making characters come alive on the page, learn how they create the plot for their stories and keep track of the action, and find out how important research is to any story, both fiction and non-fiction. (From our Streamline collection)
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Born in Georgia, Sue Monk Kidd graduated from Texas Christian University with a B.S. in nursing in 1970 and worked throughout her twenties as a Registered Nurse and nursing instructor. Best known for...
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While her first three novels are mainly about contemporary family life in the South, her fourth, Nowhere Else on Earth, is an historical novel based on a true story from the Civil War. Rich in Love...
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Mr. Pinckney resides on Daufuskie Island, a South Carolina coastal barrier island. On this last sparsely-settled place on the SC coast, he works to preserve the land and culture. His is the author of...
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Born in 1926 and a University of South Carolina graduate, William Price Fox studied under Caroline Gordon, taught writing at the famed Iowa Writer’s Workshop, and was the Writer-In-Residence at USC...
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This program features Marjory Wentworth. Her poems have appeared in numerous books, magazines and anthologies. She is the author of a collection of poems entitled Noticing Eden. Her most recent book...
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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...
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Born in 1942, Janette Turner Hospital grew up on the steamy sub-tropical coast of Australia in the north-eastern state of Queensland. She began a teaching career in the remote high schools there, but...
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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...
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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...
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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...
