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Conversations with the Conroys
https://uscpress.com/book-post/4174148/Conversations-with-the-Conroys
A New York Times best-selling author of eleven novels and memoirs, Pat Conroy is one of America's most beloved storytellers and a writer as synonymous with the South Carolina lowcountry as plu…]]>
Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:46:38 -0700Focus on Playwrights
https://uscpress.com/book-post/4174195/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…]]>
Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:46:38 -0700Becoming Southern Writers
https://uscpress.com/book-post/4174192/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…]]>
Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:46:38 -0700Wil Lou Gray
https://uscpress.com/book-post/4174157/Wil-Lou-Gray
In Wil Lou Gray: The Making of a Southern Progressive from New South to New Deal, Mary Macdonald Ogden examines the first fifty years of the life and work of South Carolina's Wil Lou Gray (188…]]>
Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:46:38 -0700Madam Chief Justice
https://uscpress.com/book-post/4174155/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…]]>
Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:46:38 -0700Florida Founder William P. DuVal
https://uscpress.com/book-post/4174126/Florida-Founder-William-P-DuVal
The biography of a well-connected but nearly forgotten American antebellum politician
In Florida Founder William P. DuVal, James M. Denham provides the first full-length biography of th…]]>
Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:46:38 -0700Patrick N. Lynch, 1817-1882
https://uscpress.com/book-post/4174092/Patrick-N-Lynch-1817-1882
Patrick Neison Lynch, born in a small town in Ireland, became the third Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Charleston, South Carolina. Lynch is remembered today mostly for his support of…]]>
Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:46:38 -0700Belvidere, commemorative edition
https://uscpress.com/book-post/4174112/Belvidere-commemorative-edition
"Belvidere is underwater too deep for any eye but that of memory to reach," begins Anne Sinkler Fishburne reverential recollections of her ancestral home. Located in between Santee River and E…]]>
Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:46:38 -0700Colonel Henry Theodore Titus
https://uscpress.com/book-post/4174206/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…]]>
Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:46:38 -0700A Yankee Scholar in Coastal South Carolina
https://uscpress.com/book-post/4174128/A-Yankee-Scholar-in-Coastal-South-Carolina
New Englander William Allen (1830-1889) is mostly known today as the lead editor of the 1867 anthology Slave Songs of the United States, the earliest published collection of Negro spirituals,…]]>
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