Author: Margaret Evans

A Conversation with Bestselling Author Patti Callahan Henry By Margaret Evans, Editor Patti Callahan Henry is a New York Times bestselling author of twelve novels, including the The Bookshop at Water’s End, which is dedicated to Pat Conroy and will be published in July. She’s been a finalist in the Townsend Prize for Fiction, an Indie Next Pick, a Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) Okra pick (a booksellers’€™ favorite), and a multiple nominee for the SIBA Novel of the Year. The mother of three children, Patti now lives in both Mountain Brook, Alabama, and Bluffton, South Carolina, with her husband. She will be the Pat Conroy Literary Center’s Visiting Writers Series guest author on July 14, appearing in conversation with fellow novelist Ellen Malphrus. Patti recently joined me on the virtual porch of the Conroy Center to chat about her new novel and her writing life.

The Pat Conroy Literary Center’€™s Visiting Writers Series welcomes Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times best-selling author of The Bookshop at Water’s End, a new novel about women who spent their childhood summers in a small southern town that harbors secrets as lush as the marshes surrounding it.