Jackie Cooper
Author of newly released The Sunrise Remembers - a collection of stories about the author's life in the south.

Jack Bass
The Palmetto State
A concise approach to the major themes and events that define contemporary South Carolina.

Stephen G. Hoffius
Northern Money, Southern Land
An enchanting mix of gossip and history from the era when parts of the Old South got new owners.

Tom Moore Craig
Upcountry South Carolina Goes to War
Civil War letters to and from Spartanburg, rich with details on the battlefront and home front.

Suzanne Stone Johnson & Robert Allison Johnson
Bitter Freedom
A firsthand account of evolving race relations during Reconstruction in South Carolina towns from Aiken to Anderson.

Stanley F. Lanzano
True Places
A documentary photographer’s vivid study of the daily and spiritual lives of an African American coastal community.

Mike Creel and Lynn Kelley
The Boykin Spaniel
Newly revised, the definitive guide to the state dog of South Carolina.

Ben McC. Moise
Ramblings of a Lowcountry Game Warden
Career-spanning tales of a coastal crimefighter, ranging from the treacherous to the hilarious.

Books will be available for purchase and autographing.

All programs will take place from noon to 1pm in Room 309 of the Administration Building at the SC State Library located at 1430 Senate St., Columbia.

Speaker @ the Center is FREE and open to the public. Bag lunches are encouraged.

The South Carolina Center for the Book is the South Carolina Affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book and is a cooperative project of the South Carolina State Library, the University of South Carolina School of Library and Information
Science, and the Humanities Council SC.