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South Carolina is home to great writers like Pat Conroy and Sue Monk Kidd, but it is also the founder of many of our southern traditions and styles. As the eighth state to join the union, South Carolina has a rich history of southern culture as well as a history of influencing the culture and pastimes of all of the United States.

Pat Conroy

… military bases around the South, Pat changed schools frequently, finally attending the Citadel Military Academy in Charleston, South Carolina, upon his father …

Sue Monk Kidd

… While in her thirties and living with her husband and children in South Carolina she began to pursue her life-long interest in writing. …

Cassandra King

… King is married to best-selling southern writer, Pat Conroy. They live in South Carolina.

The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd

… They live together in isolation on a peach farm in South Carolina until one sweltering summer afternoon in 1964, when Lily is fourteen, T-Ray tells her things …

James Dickey

…settled in South Carolina, where he was poet in residence at University of South Carolina.  He died in Columbia.

Did you know?

• The first shots of the Civil War were fired in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861.
• Golf was first played in the U.S. in Charleston, S.C. The South Carolina Golf Club was formed in 1786 and was the first golf club in the United States.
• Yellow jessamine, the state flower, is a climbing vine that grows wild on trees and fences. Its sweet-smelling yellow flowers bloom early in the spring.
• South Carolina appointed the first African-American Associate Justice of a state supreme court – J.J. Wright, February 2, 1870.
• The Nation’s only commercial tea farm, American Classic Tea, is located on Wadmalaw Island near Charleston.