USC Beaufort Center for the Arts – Beaufort, SC

The Pat Conroy Literary Center is a sponsor of the annual Books Sandwiched In Series presented by the Friends of the Beaufort Library. The 2020 series will take place on Mondays at noon from January 6 to March 2 at the USC Beaufort Center for the Arts. The series is free and open to the public. See the full schedule at https://friendsofthebeaufortlibrary.com/books-sandwiched-in

The Conroy Center is a presenting partner for the February 10 program, a discussion of the three-volume anthology series State of the Heart: South Carolina Writers on the Places They Love, edited by Aida Rogers and featuring more than 100 writers from across the Palmetto State sharing their memories of the places and place-based stories that have touched their hearts. For Books Sandwiched In, Rogers will be joined in conversation by four of the contributing writers: historian Steven G. Hoffius, best-selling novelist Patti Callahan Henry, journalist David Lauderdale, and cookbook author and celebrity chef Sallie Ann Robinson. A book signing will follow their presentation.

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About our Presenters:

Historian Stephen G. Hoffius is a native of Grand Rapids, Michigan and graduate of Duke University. He is coeditor of the books The Life and Art of Alfred Hutty: Woodstock to Charleston, Northern Money, Southern Land: The Lowcountry Plantation Sketches of Chlotilde R. Martin, and The Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art. Hoffius is the managing editor of Home House Press in Charleston. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, and Charlotte Observer. He lives in Charleston.

Patti Callahan Henry is a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of more than a dozen novels, including her most recent, Becoming Mrs. Lewis and The Favorite Daughter. A finalist for the Townsend Prize for Fiction and the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) Novel of the Year, she lives in Mountain Brook, Alabama, and Bluffton, South Carolina.

David Lauderdale is an award-winning columnist and senior editor for the Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette. He is also a contributing writer to Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy.

Sallie Ann Robinson is a cookbook author, celebrity chef, and cultural historian. A native of Daufuskie Island, South Carolina, she made her literary debut as the character named Ethel in Pat Conroy’s classic memoir, The Water Is Wide. She was among the students Conroy taught on Daufuskie Island and maintained a friendship with the author as an adult. Robinson’s published titles include Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way; and Cooking the Gullah Way, Morning, Noon, and Night; and Daufuskie Island in the Images of America series (co-authored with Jenny Hersch).

Aïda Rogers is a graduate of University of South Carolina’s College of Journalism and Mass Communications. Her career spans over 30 years of writing for newspapers, magazines, newsletters, websites, and television. She is coauthor of Stop Where the Parking Lot’s Full and editor of State of the Heart: South Carolina Writers on the Places They Love. Her writing has won awards from The National Better Newspaper Contest, the South Carolina Press Association, and the Society of Professional Journalists. She lives in Columbia.

This program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which, as always, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.