The Pat Conroy Literary Center and the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network proudly present executive director Jonathan Haupt in conversation with award-winning writer John Lane, author of the newly published novel Whose Woods These Are.

GUEST: A 2014 inductee in the South Carolina Academy of Authors (the Palmetto State’s Literary Hall of Fame), environmentalist, memoirist, poet, and novelist John Lane is one of the founders of the Hub City Writers Project in Spartanburg, SC. Lane attended Wofford College, the Breadloaf School of English, and Bennington College. Among his many book awards, his selected poems Abandoned Quarry won the Southeastern Independent Booksellers Alliance Poetry Book Award, his nonfiction book Coyote Settles the South was named a finalist and a Nature Book of Uncommon Merit by the John Burroughs Society, and his novel Fate Moreland’s Widow (published by Pat Conroy’s Story River Books) was named Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medalist.

His second novel, Whose Woods These Are, is newly published by Mercer University Press. Lane is also a contributing writer to Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy and to State of the Heart: South Carolina Writers on the Places They Love. He recently retired as professor of environmental studies and director of the Goodall Center for Environmental Studies at Wofford College.  

HOST: Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the former director of the University of South Carolina Press, where he created the Story River Books fiction imprint with Conroy, named by Garden & Gun Magazine as one of "the top ten things to love about the South."  Lean more at www.patconroyliterarycenter.org

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