The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to South Carolina Writers

The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to South Carolina Writers

Author: Tom Mack

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2014-01-30

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 1611173485

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The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to South Carolina Writers expands the range of writers included in the landmark South Carolina Encyclopedia. This guide updates the entries on writers featured in the original encyclopedia and augments that list substantially with dozens of new essays on additional authors from the late eighteenth century to the present who have contributed to the Palmetto State's distinctive literary heritage. Each profile in this concise reference includes essential biographical facts and critical assessments to place the featured writers in the larger context of South Carolina's literary tradition. The guide comprises 128 entries written by more than sixty-nine literary scholars, and it also highlights the sixty-nine writers inducted thus far into the South Carolina Academy of Authors, which serves as the state's literary hall of fame. Rich in natural beauty and historic complexity, South Carolina has long been a source of inspiration for writers. The talented novelists, essayists, poets, playwrights, journalists, historians, and other writers featured here represent the countless individuals who have shared tales and lore of South Carolina. The guide includes a foreword by George Singleton, author of two novels, four short story collections and one nonfiction book, and a 2010 inductee of the South Carolina Academy of Authors.


South Carolina Slave Narratives

South Carolina Slave Narratives

Author: Federal Writers Project

Publisher: Native American Book Publishers

Published: 1938-01-01

Total Pages: 1274

ISBN-13: 1878592874

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Transcriptions of first-person accounts of slavery by former slaves, collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).


Writing South Carolina

Writing South Carolina

Author: Aïda Rogers

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2017-03-01

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 161117791X

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Young South Carolinians offer their perspectives on and visions for the future of the state "All of you who contributed to this book write much better than I did in high school." That remarkable observation was made by Pat Conroy in the foreword to the first collection of student writing generated by the South Carolina High School Writing Contest, and it embodies the contest's goals: to encourage young people to write, to think deeply and creatively, to express themselves, and thereby to recognize and cultivate their abilities. This second volume of Writing South Carolina features the insightful and inspiring entries of each of the twenty-nine winners and finalists: high school juniors and seniors who were challenged to share, using any genre, their ideas for making South Carolina a better place to live. Through essays, poems, and stories, students used their imaginations to celebrate South Carolina and to envision a state that might be improved by addressing civic and social ills, such as domestic violence, racism, drugs, poverty, and educational inequality. Despite being raised in the age of texts and tweets, these young writers offer their unique perspectives—often revealing, thought-provoking, troubling, and exhilarating—in language that is uniquely their own and often eloquent and passionate. Marjory Wentworth, who provides a foreword to this collection, is South Carolina's poet laureate and has served as a judge for the competition with Pat Conroy.


South Carolina Naturalists

South Carolina Naturalists

Author: David Taylor

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9781570032127

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"This collection of Civil War-era letters includes epistles from the family of Charles Leverett, an Episcopal clergyman and Lowcountry planter, and his wife, Mary Maxcy Leverett."--Carolinian.