Columbia, SC – On March 27, 2008 from noon to 1:00 p.m., author Sheila Morris will discuss her book, Deep in the Heart: A memoir of Love and Longing, at the South Carolina Center for the Book located at the South Carolina State Library.
“Deep in the Heart" is a rich tale by Sheila Morris of what it was like to grow up behind the Pine Curtain of East Texas. . . Rural Texas can be a difficult place if you’re a little butch tomboy who wants nothing more than boxing gloves for Christmas and a chance to kiss a girl on the basketball bus. This is a story of `answers unspoken to questions unasked.’ But more than that, it’s the author’s elegy for the idea of family that grounds our hopes of home and happiness even when our lives take us further and further away.” ~ Dr. Ed Madden, author, Signals, winner of the 2007 S.C. Poetry Book Prize; founder and producer, Rainbow Radio; associate director, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of South Carolina.
Sheila Morris was born and raised in rural Grimes County, Texas, and is a first-year Baby Boomer. She is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin and has spent four decades working with numbers as a CPA, college instructor, stockbroker and financial advisor. As she enters the third act of her life, she wants to spend time with words. Her passion as an activist for equal rights for women, African Americans and gays and lesbians has placed her at odds with her Southern Baptist upbringing and brief calling as a minister of music. She has overcome, and moved on. She lives with her partner, Teresa Williams, and their four dogs in Columbia, South Carolina, where she has been for over thirty years.
This free lunchtime program is presented by the South Carolina Center for the Book, the South Carolina affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book. The SC Center for the Book is a cooperative project of the SC State Library, the University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science, and The Humanities Council SC. This program is FREE and open to the public. Attendees may feel free to bring a bag lunch. Location: SC State Library Administrative Building, 1430 Senate St., Columbia, 29201.
