Read about Beaufort County

presented by Iodine Literary Projects and the Arts Council of Beaufort County, these books are related to Beaufort County through the setting of the story or the background of the writer. Please submit your favorite Beaufort County-related books in the format presented here.

Savannah Grey: a tale of antebellum Georgia, by Jim Jordan. iUniverse, 2007.
Two boys from both ends of the plantation grow up together to build some of Savannah's greatest architecture, while grappling with the many challenges of their era.

Against the Tide by Harriet Keyserling. U. of S. Carolina Press, 1998.
The autobiography of a woman who arrived a Yankee liberal in 1944, and became an effective eight-term legislator in the South Carolina House of Representatives until retiring in 1992.

Hooked Up by Tracye Faulkner. Authorhouse, 2006.
On their usual Sistah Gurlz night, Michel’le was the only one who had been married and at times it bored her that they were so enthralled with the prospect.

A Word for It by Warren Slesinger. Finishing Line Press, 2007.
In this collection of poems, Warren releases the lexicographer from the role harmless drudge to being the crafter of definitions, bringing poetry into daily discourse.

Sea Island Lady by Francis Griswold. Beaufort Book Co., 1939.
The historical novel centers on 70 years of Sea Island history. Emily, the main character, arrives from Boston during the Civil War. Griswold wrote the story during his stay at Tabby Manse on Bay St.

The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy. Bantam, 1972.
Conroy's first book, a vindication/memoir of his experience as a white man boating to isolated Dafuskie Island to teach Gullah children in Southern Beaufort County.

Port Royal, South Carolina by Wendy Nilsen Pollitzer. Images of America Series, 2006.
A look at Port Royal's history through archival photographs.

The Florabama Ladies' Auxiliary and Sewing Circle by Lois Battle. Penguin, 2002.
Welcome to Florabama, Alabama—a place where you can stop to sip iced tea and think about money and love. If you had'em, you were free to think about other things. If you didn't, you couldn't think about anything else.

Kabbalah of Yeshua by Zusha Kalet. Kabbalah Nation Publishing, 2007.
Kabbalah of Yeshua is a two-hundred and six page paperback text calling us to our Kabbalistic Heritage.

Through The Dark Valley; A Veteran's Three Year Battle Against Tuberculosis by David A. Kerins. Authorhouse 2007
After a rollercoaster ride of recovery and relapse, the author finds his personal salvation in a staff nurse who becomes his lifelong soul mate.

Lowcountry Boil by Carl T. Smith. River City Publishing 2003
"fictional" insider story of a drug conspiracy similar to one in Beaufort a few decades ago. Fast paced, compelling reading.

Sanctuary Hill by Kathryn R. Wall, St. Martin's Minotaur 2007
Seventh in the "Bay Tanner" mysteries. Stories revolve around a CPA turned detective who now makes her home on Hilton Head and her father, a retired judge who still lives on their family estate on St. Helena. Great Beaufort County locale discriptions.

Blue Roots by Roger Pinckney, Sandlapper Publishing, 2003
the Lowcountry voodoo resource of African tribal faith meeting Methodist missionaries on the plantation slave streets. Tales of Dr. Bug, Dr. Buzzard, and the sheriff who turned to voodoo to make himself bulletproof.

The Right Side of the River by Roger Pinckney, Sandlapper Publishing, 2002
A love letter to Daufuskie Island: Renegades, ruffians, retired dope runners mix it up with Fortune 500 execs at Marshside Momma's, where you'd better take your shoes off if you want to dance on the bar.

Little Glory Roger Pinckney's first novel, Sandlapper Publishing. 2003
It's 1942, and German spies, moonshiners and voodoo doctors are cooking up trouble. When a young sheriff moves to enforce the law, he falls in love and unwittingly unleashes the atomic bomb.

Signs and Wonders by Roger Pinckney Sandlapper Publishing, 2004
A love affair with the outdoors, from Daufuskie Island to northern Manitoba and back again, hunting, fishing, loving hard, living big.

Seventh Son on Sacred Ground by Roger Pinckney Sandlapper Publishing, 2006
Seventh generation Lowcountry native Pinckney recounts 200 years of local history and his family's role in all of it. Wars, hurricanes, floods, wild preachers, moonlight love, beer joint brawls, with an earthquake thrown in for no extra charge.

Flashback: A Low Country Novel by D. A. Welch. iUniverse, 2007.
Haunted by a young suicide bomber, a worn out Navy SEAL returns to South Carolina. He protects the woman he loves and draws the wrath of a hate group.

Amadeus, the Leghorn Rooster, by Delores Nevils and illustrated by Jonathan Green. Sandlapper Publishing, 2006.
Amadeus strutted around with such a jaunty hop-and-skip rhythm that he was named after the 18th-century composer. His haughty "cock-a-doodle-doo" was heard throughout the small Gullah community. Visitors came from near and far to see this beautiful leghorn rooster. Illustrated with eight original oil paintings by Jonathan Green.

Gullah Branches, West African Roots, by Ronald Daise, Sandlapper, 2007.
A memoir of a Gullah man discovering personal and cultural connections with West Africa through sojourns to Ghana and Sierra Leone.

American Business Language, by W. Davis Folsom and Bradley P. Folsom, Greenwood Press, 2005.
Business communication contains terms and expressions that may not have obvious meanings to the uninitiated. If one does not know the jargon, one misses the meaning of what is said.

Someone Knows My Name, by Lawrence Hill, WW Norton, 2007.
Set in part on an indigo plantation on St. Helena Island-- "Let me begin with a caveat to any and all who find these pages. Do not trust large bodies of water, and do not cross them. If you, Dear Reader, have an African hue and find yourself led toward water with vanishing shores, seize your freedom by any means necessary..."