Charleston in Fiction

Categories: Fiction

Celebrated southern writer Pat Conroy became a legend with The Prince of Tides in 1986.  Since then he has published both fiction and nonficton, but the buzz going on right now involves his latest epic southern family saga.  South of Broad will be published in early August, and it promises to be vintage Conroy.  With its setting in Charleston, South Carolina - Broad Street being one of its main thoroughfares - the story could be as colorful as the old mansions on Rainbow Row.

Charleston is such a lovely and storied old city, it easily lends itself to fiction.  While you're waiting for Conroy's next adventure, take a look at another recent novel set in Charleston: The House on Tradd Street by Karen White (2008) features ghosts, old houses, and romance amidst the charm of the city itself.