CCPL to Host Spoleto Festival USA Book Discussion

book cover of Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill

Charleston County Public Library has partnered with Spoleto Festival USA for three book discussions, reflecting themes found in Spoleto’s opera Omar. The second talk on Wednesday, February 17, 2021 - 6:30 p.m., will examine Lawrence Hill's Someone Knows My Name. In this fiction work, Hill, an award winning author, tells the story of the injustices of slavery and its toll on people. Register here.

For more information, please contact Karli at gallagherk@ccpl.org

Upcoming Event

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Jennifer Bartell Boykin, Poet Laureate of Columbia, SC

April 25, 2024, 6:00 PM
Join the South Carolina State Library's Center for the Book for our next Speaker at the Center Author Talk, featuring Poet Laureate of Columbia, SC, Jennifer Bartell Boykin. She will discuss her debut book of poetry, Traveling Mercy, and her upcoming release, Only Believe (The Word Works), a winner of the 2023 Hilary Tham Capital Collection.