South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to South Carolina Writers

South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to South Carolina Writers

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.

  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Series Editor’s Preface
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Adams, Edward Clarkson Leverett
  • Allan, Glenn
  • Allen, Gilbert Bruce (2014)
  • Allen, William Hervey, Jr.
  • Allison, Dorothy
  • Allston, Washington
  • Ashmore, Harry Scott (1995)
  • Babcock, Havilah (2001)
  • Baldwin, William Plews, III
  • Barrett, James Lee (1998)
  • Bass, Jack (2013)
  • Bennett, John (1998)
  • Billings, John Shaw
  • Blackwell, Elise
  • Blair, Frank
  • Bowers, Cathy Smith
  • Boyd, Blanche McCrary
  • Brawley, Benjamin Griffith (1991)
  • Bristow, Gwen (2000)
  • Bruccoli, Matthew J. (2001)
  • Burroughs, Franklin Gorham, Jr. (2012)
  • Burton, Orville Vernon
  • Byars, Betsy Cromer
  • Cash, Wilbur Joseph (1995)
  • Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller (1987)
  • Childress, Alice (1990)
  • Cleveland, Georgia Alden
  • Coker, Elizabeth Boatwright (1991)
  • Conroy, Pat (1988)
  • Dabbs, James McBride (1990)
  • Dawes, Kwame (2009)
  • Dickey, James (1986)
  • DuBose, Louise Jones (2001)
  • Dupree, Nathalie
  • Durban, Pam Rosa
  • Edelman, Marian Wright (2012)
  • Edgar, Walter B.
  • Elliott, Irene Dillard
  • Everett, Percival (2011)
  • Finney, Nikky (2013)
  • Fox, William Price (2010)
  • Frank, Dorothea Benton
  • Freeman, Grace Beacham
  • Gibbes, Frances Guignard
  • Gilbreth, Frank B., Jr. (1998)
  • Gilman, Caroline Howard (1990)
  • Greene, Harlan
  • Greer, Bernard Eugene
  • Gregorie, Anne King
  • Grosvenor, Vertamae
  • Hayes, Terrance (2013)
  • Hayne, Paul Hamilton
  • Heyward, DuBose (1987)
  • Hoagland, Jimmie Lee
  • Hospital, Janette Turner (2014)
  • Humphreys, Josephine (1994)
  • Hunter-Gault, Charlayne
  • Hyer, Helen von Kolnitz
  • Ioor, William
  • Jackson, Dot (2010)
  • Jakes, John (1996)
  • Joyner, Charles W. (2012)
  • Kidd, Sue Monk (2011)
  • Kilgo, James Patrick
  • King, Susan Petigru (1994)
  • Lane, John (2014)
  • Lathan, Robert
  • Legaré, James Mathewes
  • Lewisohn, Ludwig
  • Lott, Bret
  • Ludvigson, Susan (2009)
  • Lumpkin, Grace (1996)
  • Mays, Benjamin Elijah (1997)
  • McCants, Elliott Crayton (1996)
  • McKissick, James Rion
  • Miller, Kelly, Jr. (1993)
  • Moïse, Penina (1999)
  • Molloy, Robert
  • Monroe, Mary Alice
  • Naifeh, Steven Woodward
  • Nelson, Annie Greene
  • Nickens, Carrie Allen McCray (2009)
  • Parish, Margaret Cecile
  • Peterkin, Julia Mood (1988)
  • Phifer, Mary Hardy
  • Pinckney, Josephine (1988)
  • Powell, Padgett
  • Pringle, Elizabeth Allston (1994)
  • Quillen, Robert (2014)
  • Rash, Ron (2010)
  • Ravenel, Beatrice Witte (1995)
  • Ravenel, Harriott Horry Rutledge
  • Rees, Ennis (1999)
  • Rice, John Andrew, Jr.
  • Richardson, Eudora Ramsay
  • Rigney, James Oliver, Jr. (2008)
  • Ripley, Alexandra Braid
  • Ripley, Clements and Katharine Ball (1998)
  • Robertson, Benjamin Franklin, Jr. (1992)
  • Robinson, Eugene (2013)
  • Rogers, George Calvin, Jr. (1997)
  • Rubin, Louis D., Jr. (1987)
  • Rutledge, Archibald (1999)
  • Sanders, Dori (2000)
  • Sass, Herbert Ravenel
  • Sayers, Valerie
  • Simms, William Gilmore (1986)
  • Simons, Katherine Drayton Mayrant (1997)
  • Sinclair, Bennie Lee
  • Singleton, George (2010)
  • Smith, Gregory White
  • Spears, Monroe K. (1993)
  • Spillane, Mickey (2012)
  • Springs, Elliott White (2000)
  • Steadman, Mark (2002)
  • Steele, Max (1992)
  • Stevenson, Ferdinan Nancy Backer
  • Stoney, Samuel Gaillard (1991)
  • Thompson, Dorothy Perry (2002)
  • Timrod, Henry (1992)
  • Tuttle, Jon
  • Walker, William
  • Wentworth, Marjory Heath
  • White, Benjamin Franklin
  • White, John Blake
  • Woods, Sylvia Pressley
  • Woolsey, Gamel (2011)
  • Workman, William Douglas, Jr.