Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times best selling author of thirty books, has taken a divergent path with her new historical novel. In Where the Rivers Merge (William Morrow 2025) we follow a journey that transports us in time and place between the grand city of Charleston, South Carolina, and a lush Lowcountry plantation to […]
“Ahead of Her Time, The Trailblazing Life and Literary Legacy of Ann Head” by Nancy Thode
October 6, 2025 by Leave a Comment
In Ahead of Her Time, The Trailblazing Life and Literary Legacy of Ann Head, Nancy Thode tells the story of her mother with as much unfailing accuracy as possible for a woman who lost that mother fifty-seven years ago when Nancy was only twenty-seven years old and has relied on memory and archives. It would […]
Mary Ellen Thompson interviews Nancy Thode, author of “Ahead of Her Time, The Trailblazing Life and Legacy of Ann Head”
October 5, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Ahead of Her Time, The Trailblazing Life and Legacy of Ann Head chronicles the life of Nancy Thode’s mother who was a famous Beaufort, SC, author in the 1940’s, 50’s and 60’s. The book also contains several of Ann’s writings as well as correspondence between her and another famous author, Pat Conroy. I met Nancy […]
“‘Payne-Ful’ Business: Charleston’s Journey to Truth” by Margaret Seidler
June 17, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Margaret Seidler’s book, “Payne-Ful” Business: Charleston’s Journey To Truth, is going to be known in the future as a pivotal point in changing history. Margaret has not written “another” book about slavery, it is not a memoir where she feels sorry for her circumstances, it is a wake-up call to embrace the kind of knowledge […]