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Writer and women's rights advocate Gloria Steinem helped found the magazine Ms., the first national women's magazine run by women. As an advocate, she organized political campaigns and rallies in...
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The setting for her first book, Clover, is a peach farm like the one Dori Sanders grew up on. Clover was published in 1990 and immediately became a best-seller. In the story, Clover is a 10-year-old...
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Dori Sanders' book Clover has been translated into five different languages and made into a Disney film. The story is set in the countryside of South Carolina, and told through the eyes of a 10-year...
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Misty Massey was born in Virginia and moved to South Carolina when she was twelve. Her parents were both educators who encouraged her reading addiction, which started in kindergarten! She is known as...
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This program features Mignon Ballard. When she was growing up in a small Georgia town, she enjoyed telling ghost stories in the local cemetery. Now she shares her stories through her books.
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Molly Jones resides in Lake Murray, S.C. She offers advice to young writers on tags, point of view, emotions, and knowing human nature. She also offers four main points to remember when writing...
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As a result of spending her childhood in the Missouri Ozarks, Beth Horner developed an interest in telling traditional stories from that region. She also tells folk, contemporary, and original tales...
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Of Amish background, Tamar Myers now lives in our state and is the author of several Pennsylvania Dutch mysteries, including Custard’s Last Stand, The Hand that Rocks the Ladle, Between a Wok and Hard...
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Born and raised on Sullivan’s Island, Dorothea Benton Frank is the New York Times best-selling author of Bulls Island, published in 2008, and many other works that use South Carolina as a backdrop...
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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...