Author: Margaret Evans

A conversation with award winning Beaufort writer Teresa Bruce about her upcoming book, “The Other Mother,” and the transformative power of chance encounters.    Many years ago during his travels in Africa, Ernest Hemingway got to know a fearless young woman named Beryl Markham who showed him a bit of a memoir she was working on. The notoriously egocentric Hemingway immediately dashed off a letter to his editor, the legendary Maxwell Perkins. “She has written so well, and marvelously well,” Hemingway concedes, “that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer. I felt that I was simply a carpenter with words, picking up whatever was furnished on the job and nailing them together and sometimes making an okay pig pen.” This is sort of how I feel about my friend, Teresa Bruce.

McIntosh Books in downtown Beaufort will host two fabulous literary events this month… and those are just the ones we know about! First, Beaufort’s own Cassandra King will be reading from and signing her new novel, Moonrise.