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The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to South Carolina Writers
Contributor(s): Mack, Tom (Editor), Singleton, George (Foreword by)
ISBN: 1611173477     ISBN-13: 9781611173475
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
OUR PRICE:   $23.74  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | American - General
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2013036696
Series: South Carolina Encyclopedia Guides
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.70 lbs) 208 pages
 
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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.


Contributor Bio(s): Mack, Tom: - Tom Mack, recipient of the prestigious Carolina Trustee Professorship in 2008, holds the G. L. Toole Chair in English at the University of South Carolina Aiken. Mack is the author of four books and more than one hundred articles on American cultural history, and since 2010 he has been chair of the Board of Governors of the South Carolina Academy of Authors.Singleton, George: - George Singleton is the author of two novels--Novel and Work Shirts for Madmen-- four short story collections--These People Are Us, The Half-Mammals of Dixie, Drowning in Gruel, Stray Decorum, and Why Dogs Chase Cars--and a nonfiction guide for writers. Singleton is a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2011 winner of the Hillsdale Award for Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He currently teaches writing at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities. His fiction has appeared in a wide range of magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Playboy, Esquire, Zoetrope, the Georgia Review, the Southern Review, and many others.