Vennie Deas MoorePhotographer Vennie Deas Moore was born and raised on the South Carolina Coast in McClellanville, South Carolina and now lives in Columbia. This is her third book.

William Baldwin is an award-winning novelist, biographer and historian. His novel he Hard to Catch Mercy is a past winner of the Lillian Smith Award for Fiction and he is the author of numerous books and articles about the South, among them Inland Passages, Lowcountry Plantations Today and Mrs. Whaley and her Charleston Garden. His most recent novel is A Gentleman in Charleston and the Manner of His Death. Read More Read Less