The Fundamentals of Writing can be found at South Carolina ELA Standards.
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Frances D. Strong lives with her husband on her parent’s farm in Sumter, South Carolina. Earning a degree in elementary education with a minor in arts from Columbia College, she did not find that her...
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In her interview, Emily Smith Pearce discusses the importance of having an outline, sharing your writing with others, and fitting writing into your daily life. She says that she often thought about...
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Cassandra King is a best-selling novelist whose fiction has won the hearts of readers everywhere, especially in the American South. A native of Alabama, she now lives in the Lowcountry of S.C., where...
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This program features Karen Petit who is the author of Shandon’s Ivy League Mystery Series for children. In 2008, she published her first book for adults. A Paw on My Heart tells the author’s true...
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A native of Spartanburg, Ben Greer graduated from the University of South Carolina and received his M.A. in Creative Writing from Hollins University. His first book of fiction, Slammer, was published...
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Born in Ghana in 1962, Kwame Dawes grew up and spent his early adult life in Jamaica. Dawes is a Distinguished Poet-In-Residence, Louis Frye Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts, and Founder/Executive...
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Born in Ridge Spring and living most of her life in the Aiken area, Idella Bodie, who holds a degree in English from Columbia College, has been writing for young readers for more than thirty years...
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Kathryn Wall wrote her first story at the age of six and then decided to take a few decades off! After growing up in a small town in northeastern Ohio and attending college in both Ohio and...
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Jack Bass has authored or co-authored seven nonfiction books about the American South. His works focus on Southern politics, race relations and the role of law in shaping the civil rights era. With a...
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This program features Kate Salley Palmer. A native of Orangeburg, she started her career while at USC as the cartoonist for The Gamecock. Her cartoon strip, "Terrible Tom and the Boys", caricatured...