An Afternoon with New York Times Bestselling Author Karen White 

On Friday, November 19, 2010

Burry Bookstore is hosting

“An Afternoon with

New York Times Bestselling Author

Karen White”

from 3:30 until 5:00 pm

New York Times Bestselling Author Karen White

will be speaking, reading, and signing copies of

all of her novels including her recently published

New York Times Bestseller On Folly Beach

 Tickets are $16.00.

With your ticket you may select any one of Karen’s books listed below:

On Folly Beach, Girl on Legare Street, Lost Hours or Falling Home

The event will be held in the Hartsville Memorial Library Meeting Room

147 West College Avenue.

Tickets may be purchased at Burry Bookstore or online at the link below.

Karen is known for her award-winning novels such as Learning to Breathe, the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) 2009 Book of the Year Award finalist, The House on Tradd Street, the highly praised The Memory of Water, the four-week SIBA bestseller The Lost Hours, Pieces of the Heart, her IndieBound* national bestseller  The Color of Light and her two New York Times bestsellers The Girl On Legare Street and On Folly Beach. She has shared her appreciation of the coastal Lowcountry with readers in five of her last seven novels.

Italian and French by ancestry, a southerner and a storyteller by birth, Karen has made her home in many different places. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, she has also lived in Texas, New Jersey, Louisiana, Georgia, Venezuela and England, where she attended the American School in London. She returned to the states for college and graduated from New Orleans’ Tulane University where she was a member of Chi Omega.  Karen, whose family roots are set firmly in Mississippi, notes that “searching for home brings me to the south again and again.”  

Karen credits her maternal grandmother Grace Bianca, to whom she dedicated The Lost Hours, with inspiring and teaching her through stories shared over many years. Karen also notes the many hours she spent listening as adults visited in her grandmother’s Mississippi kitchen, telling stories and gossiping while she played under the table—time she believes began her on the road to telling her own tales.

The deal was sealed in the seventh grade when she skipped school and read Gone With The Wind. She knew—just knew—she was destined to grow up to be either Scarlet O’Hara or a writer.  Karen’s novel The Memory of Water was a WXIA-TV Atlanta & Company Book Club Selection. Her work has been reviewed in Southern Living, Atlanta Magazine, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and by Fresh Fiction, among many others, and has been adopted by numerous independent booksellers for book club recommendations. Her 2007 novel Learning to Breathe received several honors, notably the National Readers’ Choice Award and the Booksellers’ Best Award, which in 2009 was again presented to Karen, this time for The Memory of Water.  Recently her novel The Girl on Legare Street was nominated for the 2010 SIBA Book Award. 

Karen continues to work, write and dream of the Lowcountry from her home in Atlanta where she lives with her husband and two children.