Evening Post Books Presents: A Southern Author Soirée

Join Evening Post Books on May 3 in celebrating our local authors and their new titles. The event will be held at the Garden & Gun headquarters in the Old Cigar Factory and will feature hors d'oeuvres, drinks by the famed Cocktail Bandits, and more.

Lindy Keane Carter- author of The Rice Birds

Lindy Keane Carter is a graduate of the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. After writing non-fiction for 30 years, she signed up for a fiction-writing class at a community college in Maryland. Her short stories won awards in 2003 and 2009 in the South Carolina Arts Commission’s Fiction Project contest. The Rice Birds is her third published novel.

                                                                                        
 

George McDaniel- author of Drayton Hall Stories

George W. McDaniel, PhD, is the President of McDaniel Consulting, LLC, a strategy firm that helps organizations and museums build bridges within itself and to its broader constituents. For more than 25 years, he served as the Executive Director of Drayton Hall, a historic site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Charleston, South Carolina. A native of Atlanta, he earned a BA from Sewanee, a MAT (history) from Brown University, and PhD (history) from Duke. Interspersed through those years were travels to many places — Europe, Africa, Vietnam — where he saw peace and war and learned by experience about cultural differences and commonalities. Beginning with the Smithsonian Institution, he has built a career in education and history museums, earning awards at local, state, and national levels.

Kathryn Smith- author of Baptists & Bootleggers

Kathryn Smith writes about history from her home in Anderson, South Carolina, often bringing her husband, Leo, along on journeys to investigate historical sites and, in the case of her newest book, bars and distilleries. Kathryn’s previous books include Gertie: The Fabulous Life of Gertrude Sanford Legendre, Heiress, Explorer, Socialite Spy, which won the Benjamin Franklin Gold Award in biograhy from the Independent Book Publishers Association; and The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Partnership that Defined a Presidency, which was a finalist for the Southern Book Award in biography

                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                                        

Herb Frazier- editor of Ukweli: Searching for Healing Truth

Herb Frazier has edited and reported for five daily   newspapers in the South, including his hometown paper,  The Post and Courier. In 1990, the South Carolina  Press Association named him Journalist of the year. Frazier  studied journalism at the University of South Carolina and  taught newswriting as a visiting lecturer at Rhodes  University in South  Africa. He is a former Michigan  Journalism Fellow at the University  of Michigan.


                                                                                     


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