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 author or editor of fourteen books, including In My Father’s House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina, and The Age of Lincoln, which was the 2007 winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for non-fiction. Born in Georgia, Burton grew up in Ninety Six, South Carolina, and received his undergraduate degree from Furman University. He earned his Ph.D. in American History from Princeton University.
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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...