uscpress.com - Memoir & Biography https://uscpress.com/ Becoming Southern Writers https://uscpress.com/book-post/4791925/Becoming-Southern-Writers
Southern writers, historians, and artists celebrate the life and career of a beloved mentor, friend, and colleague

Edited by southern historians Orville Vernon Burton and Eldred E. Prin…]]> Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:17:33 -0800 Proust and His Banker https://uscpress.com/book-post/4791980/Proust-and-His-Banker
The steady hand that kept Proust financially afloat despite speculative ventures and extravagant pursuits of love

What Marcel Proust wanted from life most of all was unconditional requi…]]> Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:17:33 -0800 Captain James Carlin https://uscpress.com/book-post/4791967/Captain-James-Carlin
A portrait of one of the most successful blockade runners who brought vital supplies to Confederate forces

Captain James Carlin is a biography of a shadowy nineteenth-century British Co…]]> Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:17:33 -0800 Citizen-Scholar https://uscpress.com/book-post/4791960/Citizen-Scholar
A collection of essays reflecting on Edgar as friend and colleague and on the subjects of his scholarly work

Citizen-Scholar comprises essays written in honor of Walter Edgar, South Car…]]> Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:17:33 -0800 Colonel Henry Theodore Titus https://uscpress.com/book-post/4791939/Colonel-Henry-Theodore-Titus
The first full-length biography of a saloon-brawling braggart and frontier opportunist turned justice of the peace

Henry Theodore Titus (1822-1881) was the quintessential adventurer, so…]]> Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:17:33 -0800 Focus on Playwrights https://uscpress.com/book-post/4791928/Focus-on-Playwrights
A photographer's intimate view of writers' personal and creative journeys

In 1989 Susan Johann was hired to photograph Christopher Durang for a magazine article about his play Naomi in…]]> Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:17:33 -0800 Madam Chief Justice https://uscpress.com/book-post/4791888/Madam-Chief-Justice
The biography of the first female Supreme Court Justice of South Carolina

In Madam Chief Justice, editors W. Lewis Burke Jr. and Joan P. Assey chronicle the remarkable career of Jean Ho…]]> Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:17:33 -0800 A Yankee Scholar in Coastal South Carolina https://uscpress.com/book-post/4791862/A-Yankee-Scholar-in-Coastal-South-Carolina
The Civil War journals of a Northern abolitionist engaged in the Port Royal Experiment

New Englander William Francis Allen (1830-1889) is mostly known today as the lead editor of the 18…]]> Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:17:33 -0800 Conversations with the Conroys https://uscpress.com/book-post/4791881/Conversations-with-the-Conroys
Revealing interviews with Pat Conroy and four of his siblings offer fans a look inside the author's life and career

A New York Times best-selling author of eleven novels and memoirs, Pa…]]> Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:17:33 -0800 Duck and Cover https://uscpress.com/book-post/4791982/Duck-and-Cover
A short story memoir of life in the segregated South as seen through the innocent eyes of a young white girl

Duck and Cover is a wry, laconic memoir penned by Kathie Farnell, based on h…]]> Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:17:33 -0800