Brunching with Authors Event Announced

Columbia, SC -- The South Carolina Center for the Book, in partnership with SCBook Festival and Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A., announces brunching with authors, a special literary event Sunday, February 24, 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

brunching with authors will take place at the Columbia Museum of Art at the corner of Main andbrunching with authors Hampton streets in downtown Columbia and will feature a gourmet brunch with authors participating in the Book Festival. Author guests at brunching with authors come from a wide variety of literary backgrounds, including mystery, cookbooks, children’s literature, poetry, nonfiction and general fiction. The guest list includes Tina McElroy Ansa, James O. Born, Sonny Brewer, Orville Vernon Burton, JT Ellison, Josephine Humphreys, Tim Kimmel, Sallie Ann Robinson, Kim Sunee, Jeff VanderMeer, Logan Ward and more. For more information about these authors, please visit www.scbookfestival.org. Tickets are $30 and are limited, so make reservations early. Reservations can be made on the SCBook Festival Web site at www.scbookfestival.org or by calling 803-771-2477.

The South Carolina Center for the Book is the South Carolina affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book in Washington, DC and is a cooperative project of the South Carolina State Library, the USC School of Library and Information Science, and The Humanities Council SC. The Center’s mission is to celebrate South Carolina’s rich literary heritage and bring public attention to the importance of books, writers, and reading.

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