Dr Tony Shaw

In a brief interview and question-and-answer session on the extra features disc of this DVD, Amy Adams – who was nominated for an Oscar ...

This is the English edition of Sweetgrass , retitled The Secrets We Keep . I'm not too sure why though: did the publishers think the ...

Karen White's The Memory of Water is an example of the Lowcountry sub-genre of Southern Literature, is set in South Carolina, and is to...

Sue Monk Kidd was in her fifties by the time her first novel The Secret Life of Bees   (2002) was published, but her second - The Mermaid C...

There have been fifteen years between Pat Conroy's Beach Music (1995) and his latest novel, South of Broad (2009). This is the f...

Aiken is very much about horses, and fiberglass models are liberally sprinkled about the town as are the bears in Cherokee, North Carolina...

This historical marker, in the grounds of the University of South Carolina Aiken campus just in front of the Pickens-Salley House, says i...

James Mathewes Legare (1823-59) wrote poetry and fiction, as well as being a painter and an inventor. He was born in Charleston, South Carol...

Catherine Stratton Ladd (1809-99) was born in Richmond, Virginia, and married the painter George Williamson Livermore Ladd at the age of 19....

Ridgeway, at the time of the 2000 census, had a population of just 328. It has a number of interesting buildings, and the most interesting f...

Mary Alice Munroe's novels form part of what can be described as a sub-genre of literature of the South – Lowcountry literature, o...

William Gilmore Simms (1806-70) was a poet, novelist, and biographer of the antebellum period, and as such it almost goes without saying tha...

This novel is another example of the Lowcountry sub-genre of Southern literature, and as such is peppered with names of places in the area, ...

India Allen , by Elizabeth Boatwright Coker (1909–93), is interesting in itself: the novel begins in antebellum South Carolina among the ...