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The recipient of a master's in library and information science from LSU and a master's in counseling from Xavier University, he is presently a library branch manager in Gwinnett County, Georgia, a suburban community 25 miles outside of Atlanta. Mr. Gauthier is currently co-authoring a nonfiction title chronicling the odyssey of John Thompson, a man wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death in Louisiana. He is also working on the final installment of the trilogy that began with Prey for Me, tentatively entitled Second Line Showdown. His books are being reviewed in forthcoming issues of New Orleans Review, a literary journal at Loyola University and the Callalloo: Journal of African American Literature. He currently resides in Atlanta.
Gauthier will be speaking on 2 panels at the Book Festival: "Murder & Mayhem" (Sunday March 1, 11:30 a.m. in Richland Meeting Room A&B) and "What Writers are Reading" (Sunday, March 1, 3:10 p.m. in Congaree Meeting Room). For a complete listing of speakers and presentations at the Book Festival, please visit www.scbookfestival.org.