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2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 General Description The Friends of the Ethel K. Smith Library Annual Author’s
Luncheon is made possible thanks to the generosity of Mary Louise
Little. We would like to extend our appreciation for her endowment
efforts. In order to meet the primary components of the Friends
of the Library Mission Statement: to encourage understanding of
the work of Wingate University’s Ethel K. Smith Library and
to further a realization of the present and future importance of
the Library to the University’s advancement, to attract to
the University Library, through gifts or bequests, new resources
including funds, books, manuscripts, and other appropriate material
beyond what the University budget can provide, and to serve as a
medium through which Friends of the Library may become acquainted
with each other and share their enthusiasm for books, the FOL hosts
the Annual Author’s Luncheon. 2008 - Sheri Lynch
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Join us as we host Sheri Lynch, author of Hello, My Name is
Mommy and 
Nan
Graham was born in Tallahassee, Florida, and grew up in Columbia,
South Carolina, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She graduated from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with an A.B. in English
and received her M.A.T. in English from the Citadel in Charleston,
South Carolina. She currently teaches honors courses in Southern
literature at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Graham
has been a regular biweekly commentator for WHQR Public Radio in
Wilmington since 1995. Her on-air tag line, "a lifelong Southerner,"
reveals the focus of her humorous commentaries on growing up and
growing old in the South. According to her 
Prize
winning author Judy Goldman has written two novels, Early Leaving
and The Slow Way Back, and two books of poetry. Her first
novel won the Sir Walter Raleigh Fiction Award, the Mary Ruffin
Poole First Work of Fiction Award, and was a finalist for the Southeast
Booksellers Association’s Novel of the Year. She is a commentator
on public radio in Charlotte and teaches fiction-writing at conferences
across the country. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Jill
McCorkle is the author of seven previous books of fiction, five
of which have been named New York Times Notables. Her novels
include: The Cheer Leader, July 7th, Tending
to Virginia, Ferris Beach, and Carolina Moon. "Crash
Diet," "Final Vinyl Days," and "Creatures of
Habit" are among her short story publications. Winner of the
New England Booksellers Award, the John Dos Passos Prize for Excellence
in Literature, and the North Carolina Award for Literature, she
has taught writing at the University of North Carolina, Bennington
College, Tufts University, and Harvard. A native of Lumberton, North
Carolina, she lives near Boston with her husband, their two children,
several dogs, and a collection of toads.
Amy
Rogers has compiled a touching snapshot of Southern culture, its
food. Hungry for Home reveals not only the recipes of the
South, but underscores the importance of food in the culture, in
the home, and often, its origin. The edition includes many well-known
Southern authors, such as Lee Smith, Clyde Edgerton, and Wingate
University’s own, Sylvia Little-Sweat. Published by local
Novello press, inviting this author provided the campus with an
opportunity to hear a local, yet renowned author. 
Robert
Morgan was born in Hendersonville and reared on land settled by
his Welsh ancestors, Morgan has been professor of English at Cornell
University and was a visiting writer at Duke University in March
and April of 2003. Author of the national bestsellers, This
Rock and Gap Creek, Morgan is currently at work on
two books: a novel about the Revolutionary battle at Cowpens in
South Carolina (now published, Brave Enemies) and a poetry
collection.
Pam
Durban is the author of three books of fiction: a collection of
short stories, All Set About With Fever Trees, and two
novels, The Laughing Place and So Far Back.