Lists of South Carolina Authors

Books by South Carolina authors.

Meet authors with connections to South Carolina. Which authors have lived in your city or county?

• SC Literary Map
• List of SC Authors by County
• SC Children’s Authors
• SCIWAY-SC Books & Authors

South Carolina Authors from A to Z

Here are a few of the authors from South Carolina that have become well-known far beyond the borders of our state.

• Pat Conroy
  Pat Conroy is a famous South Carolina author who has written many popular books such as The Prince of Tides.
• Vertamae Grosvenor
  Vertamae Grosvenor has written many books, essays, and poems on the Gullah and Geechee way of life.
• Eugene Dubose Heyward
  Dubose Heyward was a Charleston author who wrote Porgy, which the musical Porgy & Bess was based on.
• Archibald Rutledge
  Learn about this famous naturalist writer who was also the first poet laureate of South Carolina.
• Dori Sanders
  Meet Dori Sanders, a peach farmer from York County, who wrote the best-selling book Clover.

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• Dori Sanders
  Dori Sanders is from York County and has written a novel and a cookbook.
• Mary Boykin Chesnut
  Meet the author of a famous diary written during the Civil War.
• Pat Conroy
  Pat Conroy has written numerous novels about Southern life.