August 31st, 2011 at 6pm

College of Charleston, Addlestone Library, Room 227

Meet the Stephen Hoffius and Susan Williams, authors of the new book Upheaval in Charleston: Earthquake and Murder on the Eve of Jim Crow and learn how the great Charleston earthquake forever changed an iconic southern city.

Susan Millar Williams is the author of A Devil and a Good Woman, Too: The Lives of Julia Peterkin, winner of the Julia Cherry Spruill Award. She teaches American literature and creative writing at Trident Technical College and lives in McClellanville, South Carolina.

Stephen G. Hoffius is the author of Winners and Losers, a prize-winning novel for young adults, and coeditor of The Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art and Northern Money, Southern Land: The Lowcountry Plantation Sketches of Chlotilde R. Martin. A freelance author and editor, he lives in Charleston.