Steve Lynn is the dean of the University of South Carolina Honors College, USA and a Louise Fry Scudder Professor of English.
Aida Rogers is a writer for the USC Honors College and editor of State of the Heart: South Carolina Writers on the Places They Love , published by the University of South Carolina Press.
Pat Conroy is the author of eleven books, including The Water Is Wide, My Reading Life , and The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son .