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«Back to Authors and Guests John W. Brinsfield, Jr. BOOK:The Spirit Divided: Memoirs of Civil War Chaplains PRESENTING:Saturday 12:00 p.m. The Hilton Columbia Center; Saturday 2:00 p.m. Congaree Meeting Room A&B; Sunday 2:00 p.m. Richland Meeting Room A&B http://www.mupress.org/webpages/books/brinsfield.htmlChaplain (Colonel) John Wesley Brinsfield, USA Retired, is the Chaplain Corps historian at the U.S. Army Chaplain School, Ft. Jackson, SC. Chaplain Brinsfield is a United Methodist from Atlanta, Georgia. He has a B.A. from Vanderbilt University, an M. Div.from Yale Divinity School, a Ph.D. from Emory University, and a D. Min. from Drew Theological Seminary. He served for 28 years on active duty including deployment for Operation Desert Storm. He is the author or co-author of seven books, the most recent being The Spirit Divided: Memoirs of Civil War Chaplains. He and his wife, Patricia, live in Columbia, SC. READ MORE CATEGORIES: Nonfiction History Faith |
 Orville Vernon Burton BOOK:The Age of Lincoln PRESENTING:Saturday 4:30 p.m. Lexington Meeting Room A&B; Sunday 2:00 p.m. Richland Meeting Room A&B www.TheAgeofLincoln.comOrville Vernon Burton was born in Royston, Georgia, reared in Ninety Six, South Carolina, graduated from Furman University, and received his Ph.D. in American History from Princeton University in 1976. He is Professor of History and Sociology at the CATEGORIES: Nonfiction History |
 Ronald Daise BOOK:Gullah Branches, West African Roots PRESENTING:Saturday 2:00 p.m. The Hilton Columbia Center; Sunday 12:45 p.m. Lexington Meeting Room www.gullahgullah.comRonald Daise grew up on St. Helena Island, South Carolina. His parents both graduated from Penn Normal Industrial and Agricultural School, one of the country's first schools for freed blacks. Like the mission of the Penn Center, which stands on the site of the school, Ron has worked to promote and preserve the history of the sea islands through books, recordings, and performances. In Gullah Branches, West African Roots, Ron tells about his travels to Ghana and Sierra Leone and weaves poetry, personal experience, spirituals, and stunning visuals to connect Gullah heritage to West African values and traditions and the African Diaspora of three hundred years ago. It is a tribute to the fascinating and colorful Gullah culture. READ MORECATEGORIES: Nonfiction History African American Memoir |
 Kim Sunee BOOK:Trail of Crumbs PRESENTING:Saturday 3:20 p.m. Richland Meeting Room C; Sunday 3:00 p.m. Congaree Meeting Room A&B www.kimsunee.comKim Sunée is the founding food editor of Cottage Living. She was born in South Korea and adopted and raised in New Orleans and lived in Europe for ten years. She now resides in Birmingham, Alabama. READ MORE CATEGORIES: Nonfiction Memoir Cooking |
 Nathalie Dupree BOOK:Nathalie Dupree's Shrimp and Grits Cookbook PRESENTING:Saturday 10:00 a.m. Lexington Meeting Room A; Saturday 3:20 p.m. Richland Meeting Room C www.nathalie.comNathalie Dupree is the author of ten cookbooks, eight of which are hard backs, selling more than half a million copies, and host of three hundred television shows, which have aired on PBS, The Learning Channel and The Food Network for over fifteen years. Nathalie, as she is known to her fans, has won innumerable awards for her work, including two James Beard Awards. She is most famous for her approachability and understanding of Southern cooking, having started the New Southern Cooking movement now found in many restaurants throughout the South. READ MORE CATEGORIES: Nonfiction Cooking |
 Marti Healy BOOK:The God-Dog Connection PRESENTING:Sunday 3:00 p.m. Lexington Meeting Room www.thegoddogconnection.comMarti Healy has been a professional copywriter for more than 35 years, primarily for The Design Group, Inc. She is also a contributing columnist for The Aiken Standard daily newspaper and various other publications. Although The God-Dog Connection is her first published book, she now has produced two companion books for it, and has numerous others -- on diverse subjects -- under development. She pioneered The God-Dog Connection Pet Ministry and is a popular speaker on this and other topics. Marti lives in Aiken, South Carolina, with dogs Sophie and Teddy, and cats Katie and Sparkey. READ MORECATEGORIES: Nonfiction Memoir Faith |
 John Lane BOOK:Circling Home PRESENTING:Saturday 10:00 a.m. Congaree Meeting Room A John Lane’s writing has been published in Orion, American Whitewater, Southern Review, Terra Nova, and Fourth Genre. His books include Waist Deep in Black Water, The Woods Stretched for Miles, and Chattooga (all published by University of Georgia Press), several volumes of poetry, and Weed Time, a gathering of his essays. Lane is an associate professor of English at Wofford College. READ MORECATEGORIES: Nonfiction Memoir |
 John Lee BOOK:Novice Wild Turkey Hunting in South Carolina PRESENTING:Saturday 10:00 a.m. Congaree Meeting Room B; Sunday 3:00 p.m. Lexington Meeting Room www.noviceturkeyhunting.comJohn C. Lee is a bookseller and co-owner of Lee’s Book Attic, in Columbia, South Carolina. He retired from the South Carolina Department of Mental Health, where he served as the Director of Community Rehabilitation and Support in the Division of Clinical Services, and he closed his private practice in marriage and family therapy several years ago. Lee became interested in hunting wild turkeys in the 1980s. Having grown up in rural South Carolina, he brought to the sport a love of the outdoors and limited experiences in other types of hunting. He has enjoyed annual turkey hunts for nearly two decades. Although never an expert marksman, he has found his experiences as an amateur turkey hunter rewarding. The involvement of family and friends in wild turkey adventures is a key part of his enjoyment. Joining John Lee on the Turkey Hunting panel anchored by his book are his son, John C. (Johnny) Lee, III, Howard S. Waddell and Rafe Ellisor. Pat Robertson of The State newspaper will moderate the panel. READ MORECATEGORIES: Nonfiction Sports |
 Robert K. Ackerman BOOK:Wade Hampton III PRESENTING:Saturday 12:40 p.m. Congaree Meeting Room A&B http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/2007/3667.htmlRobert K. Ackerman, author of Wade Hampton III, is a retired professor of history who has served as dean of CATEGORIES: Nonfiction History Biography South Carolina History |
 Jack Bass BOOK:The Orangeburg Massacre PRESENTING:Saturday 3:20 p.m. Carolina Meeting Room www.jackbass.comJack Bass is author or co-author of seven nonfiction books about the American South. His works have focused on Southern politics, race relations, and the role of law in shaping the civil rights era. He is a professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at the College of Charleston. Bass will be leading a panel to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Orangeburg Massacre. READ MORE CATEGORIES: Nonfiction History South Carolina History |
 Andrew Billingsley BOOK:Yearning to Breathe Free: Robert Smalls of South Carolina and His Families PRESENTING:Sunday 2:00 p.m. Richland Meeting Room A&B http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/2007/3686.htmlThe author of Yearning to Breathe Free: Robert Smalls of South Carolina and His Families, Andrew Billingsley is a professor of sociology and African American studies and senior scholar in residence at the Institute for Families in Society at the His previous books are Mighty like a River: The Black Church and Social Reform and Climbing Jacob’s Ladder: The Enduring Legacy of African-American Families. Billingsley is the recipient of the DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award from the American Sociological Association and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Association of Black Sociologists. He was also featured in the PBS documentary Blacks in the Civil War, narrated by Morgan Freeman. READ MORECATEGORIES: Nonfiction Biography African American South Carolina History |
 Sonny Brewer BOOK:Cormac: The Tale of a Dog Gone Missing PRESENTING:Saturday 2:00 p.m. Congaree Meeting Room A&B; Saturday 4:00 p.m. The Hilton Columbia Center; Sunday 2:00 p.m. Richland Meeting Room C www.sonnybrewer.comSonny Brewer is the author of the novels The Poet of Tolstoy Park and A Sound Like Thunder, and editor of the anthology Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe. Sonny founded Over the Transom Bookstore in Fairhope, Alabama, and serves as board chairman of The Fairhope Center for Writing Arts. His latest book, Cormac, The Tale of a Dog Gone Missing chronicles the true story of how Sonny lost his good dog Cormac and found him a month later more than a thousand miles from home, neutered and up for adoption on the internet. Film rights have been optioned and Sonny wrote the screenplay. READ MORE CATEGORIES: Nonfiction Memoir |
 Suzanne Cameron Linder Hurley BOOK:Dearest Hugh: The Courtship Letters of Gabrielle Drake and Hugh McColl, 1900-1901 PRESENTING:Saturday 12:40 p.m. Congaree Meeting Room A&B; Sunday 4:10 p.m. Richland Meeting Room C http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/2008/3714.htmlEditor of Dearest Hugh: The Courtship Letters of Gabrielle Drake and Hugh McColl, 1900–1901, Suzanne Cameron Linder Hurley is a native of CATEGORIES: Nonfiction History South Carolina History |
 John Hammond Moore BOOK:The Voice of Small-Town America: The Selected Writings of Robert Quillen, 1920-1948 PRESENTING:Saturday 12:40 p.m. Congaree Meeting Room A&B http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/2008/3710.htmlJohn Hammond Moore is a veteran journalist and historian with more than twenty books to his credit, most recently The Voice of Small-Town CATEGORIES: Nonfiction History South Carolina History |
 Sheila Morris BOOK:Deep in the Heart PRESENTING:Saturday 4:30 p.m. Richland Meeting Room A&B; Sunday 12:45 p.m. Lexington Meeting Room www.writersheilamorris.comSheila Morris was born and raised in rural Grimes County, Texas, and is a first-year Baby Boomer. She is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin and has spent four decades working with numbers as a CPA, college instructor, stockbroker and financial advisor. As she enters the third act of her life, she wants to spend time with words. Her passion as an activist for equal rights for women, African Americans and gays and lesbians has placed her at odds with her Southern Baptist upbringing and brief calling as a minister of music. She has overcome, and moved on. She lives with her partner, Teresa Williams, and their four dogs in Columbia, South Carolina, where she has been for over thirty years. READ MORE CATEGORIES: Nonfiction Memoir |
 Kevin O'Keefe BOOK:The Average American PRESENTING:Friday Opening Night Reception - Keynote Speaker; Saturday 11:20 a.m. Richland Meeting Room C www.theaverageamerican.comKevin O'Keefe turned to writing while continuing an accomplished career in business management and marketing. His internationally-acclaimed first book, The Average American: The Extraordinary Search for the Nation's Most Ordinary Citizen, became a national top-25 hardcover nonfiction Amazon bestseller and is in multiple printings. As an independent journalist, Kevin has written for a variety of newspapers and national magazines, most recently The New York Times, ESPN The Magazine and Tennis. READ MORE CATEGORIES: Nonfiction |
 Kate Salley Palmer BOOK:Growing Up Cartoonist in the Baby-boom South: A Memoir and Cartoon Retrospective PRESENTING:Sunday 12:45 p.m. Lexington Meeting Room http://www.warbranchpress.com/cartoon.htmlA native of Orangeburg, Kate started doing cartoons while at USC for The Gamecock. After graduation and a short stint as a school teacher and free-lance cartoonist, she became the state’s first full-time editorial cartoonist for The Greenville News. In the early 80’s Kate was one of only two women nationally syndicated in over 200 newspapers. In 1981, she won the Freedom Foundation’s Award for Editorial Cartooning. Even though Kate is now doing children’s picture books (www.warbranchpress.com), she retains a keen interest in politics and annually does a Christmas t-shirt with a political theme. Her new book, Growing Up Cartoonist, chronicles Kate’s cartooning life and serves as a collection of her most popular cartoons. CATEGORIES: Nonfiction Memoir |
 Sallie Ann Robinson BOOK:Cooking the Gullah Way, Morning, Noon and Night PRESENTING:Saturday 3:20 p.m. Richland Meeting Room C http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/t-7982.htmlSallie Ann Robinson is author of Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way. She now makes her home in Savannah, Georgia. READ MORE CATEGORIES: Nonfiction African American Cooking |
 LD Russell BOOK:Godspeed: Racing is My Religion PRESENTING:Sunday 3:00 p.m. Lexington Meeting Room http://www.continuumbooks.comLD Russell was born in 1955 in Manassas, Virginia, grew up in Union, South Carolina, and has lived in North Carolina since 1979. He is a Lecturer in Religious Studies at Elon UniversityElon, North Carolina. Russell has been a student of religion since the early seventies, as well as a NASCAR fan since attending his first race, the Rebel 400 at Darlington Raceway, in 1965. His book, Godspeed: Racing Is My Religion, has just been published by Continuum Books. READ MORE CATEGORIES: Nonfiction Memoir Faith Sports |
 Logan Ward BOOK:See You in a Hundred Years PRESENTING:Saturday 11:20 Richland Meeting Room C; Sunday 3:00 p.m. Congaree Meeting Room A&B; Sunday 2:00 p.m. Richland Meeting Room A&B www.loganward.comFreelance writer Logan Ward has written travel stories for National Geographic Adventure, the New York Times, Men’s Journal, Popular Science, House Beautiful and other publications. He also writes about science and architecture and is a contributing editor for Popular Mechanics, Cottage Living, New Old House and Southern Accents. In 2000, he and his family moved from Brooklyn to Swoope, Virginia, to recreate the life of 1900-era dirt farmers, the subject of his memoir See You in a Hundred Years: Four Seasons in Forgotten America. He lives with his wife, Heather, and their children, Luther and Eliot, in Staunton, Virginia. READ MORE CATEGORIES: Nonfiction Memoir |
 Peter Zheutlin BOOK:Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry's Extraordinary Ride PRESENTING:Saturday 11:20 Richland Meeting Room C; Saturday 4:30 p.m. Richland Meeting Room A&B http://www.annielondonderry.com/index.htmlPeter Zheutlin is a freelance journalist and author whose work appears regularly in the Boston Globe and the Christian Science Monitor. Mr. Zheutlin has also written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, AARP Magazine and numerous other publications. He is the author of Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry’s Extraordinary Ride (Citadel Press, 2007), and the co-author, with Thomas B. Graboys, M.D., of Life in the Balance: A Physician’s Memoir of Life, Love and Loss with Parkinson’s Disease and Dementia (forthcoming from Sterling Publishers, April 2008). He resides in Needham, Massachusetts, with his wife, author Judith Gelman, and his two sons. CATEGORIES: Nonfiction Biography |
 Joy W. Barnes BOOK:Knowing Who I Am: A Black Entrepreneur's Struggle and Success in the American South PRESENTING:Saturday 12:40 p.m. Congaree Meeting Room A&B; Saturday 3:30 p.m. The Hilton Columbia Center http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/2008/3715.htmlA native of CATEGORIES: Nonfiction Biography South Carolina History |
 Matthew J. BruccoliMatthew J. Bruccoli, the Emily Brown Jefferies Emeritus Professor of English at USC, is the author or editor of nearly seventy books. He is the editorial director of the Dictionary of Literary Biography (300+ volumes) and editor for the USC Press series Understanding Contemporary American Literature and Understanding Contemporary British Literature (approaching 100 volumes). He is the foremost F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar and also has published important biographical, bibliographical, and textual studies of Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, John O'Hara, and James Gould Cozzens. Bruccoli has produced distinguished work on detective/crime/espionage writers, including Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, George V. Higgins, and John le Carre. READ MORECATEGORIES: Nonfiction Biography Literary Magazine or Review Editor |
 Bob Fulton BOOK:My Career My Life PRESENTING:Sunday 3:00 p.m. Richland Meeting Room C http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/2008/2746.htmlFor forty-three years sportscaster Bob Fulton was the "voice" of the University of South Carolina Gamecocks and a figure as central to the athletics program as any coach or star player. His memoir serves as a unique opportunity to revisit decades of Carolina sports from the broadcaster's vantage point as he surveys defining moments and larger-than-life personalities from football, basketball, and baseball. Bob Fulton is an eight-time recipient of the South Carolina Outstanding Sportscaster Award. In 1990 he was inducted into the South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame and in 2007 into the South Carolina Hall of Fame. Now retired, he lives with his wife Carol in Columbia. READ MORE CATEGORIES: Nonfiction Memoir South Carolina History Sports |