Literary South Carolina By Edwin C. Epps Foreword by Thomas L. Johnson ISBN: 1-891885-32-4 Paperback ISBN: 1-891885-32-9 Hardback 216 pages, 8 x 10 300 photographs Publication Date: June 1997 $20.00 Paperback $40.00 Hardback

Literary South Carolina is a wide-ranging history and reference book that encompasses the lives and works of more than three hundred Palmetto State writers. From William Gilmore Simms to Julia Peterkin, from DuBose Heyward to Benjamin Brawley, from Pat Conroy and James Dickey to Percival Everett and Josephine Humphreys, this extraordinary illustrated volume by Edwin C. Epps presents three centuries of literary achievement in South Carolina.

More than seventy years have passed since such a comprehensive volume about South Carolina writer has been published. "Edwin Epps's remarkable panoramic history of literary South Carolina is a timely new reading and reminder of the state's rich written and storytelling tradition," says literary scholar Thomas L. Johnson.

A student and devotee of South Carolina literature since his childhood, Edwin C. Epps is a National Board Certified Teacher of English at Spartanburg High School. He is a graduate of Emory University with a bachelor's degree in English and of the University of South Carolina (M.A., 1973; Ed.D., 1993). He is a former editor of South Carolina Writing Teacher and has published poetry and academic essays in a variety of national and regional journals and magazines.