Roger John Pinckney

Blue Roots: African-American Folk Magic of the Gullah People

The Beaufort Chronicles: Old Houses, Old Stories

From Introduction: Here are thirty buildings, thirty tales. They overlap, intertwine, nearly coalesce, like some great epic novel not quite ready to jell. Here are wars, hurricanes, pestilence, ghosts, pirates, politics, death, romance, a massacre, earthquake, fire and the indomitable human spirit. ...

The Mullet Manifesto

It's the last of the free and wild days and Yancey, Grayson and Little Rip lay claim to a scrubby little island along a deserted stretch of beach. They hunt and fish and roam the woods but the world comes hammering at their cabin door. Prince Faisal, heir to the Saudi throne, is looking for a secure...

Signs and Wonders

In this collection of essays, master storyteller Roger Pinckney paints a vivid portrait of his lowcountry South Carolina birthplace and his present home on Daufuskie Island. In a distinctive literary voice with keen sensitivity to current environmental and social issues, Pinckney chronicles a rural ...

Seventh Son on Sacred Ground

Nobody knows the South Carolina Lowcountry like Roger Pinckney. Soldiers, preachers, statesmen, outlaws and lawmen, his family has been here for seven generations. That makes him the Seventh Son, reputed to have magical power. Maybe so. There is magic in these pages, tales of wars, hurricanes, slave...

Right Side of the River, The

This rollicking chronicle of life on Daufuskie Island, one of the sea islands of coastal South Carolina, portrays a distinct culture shaped by the physical geography of place, the historic environment of the antebellum South, and the encroachment of modern golf resorts. The unique landscape of sandy...

Little Glory

The high-spirited, often humorous adventures of a boy growing up in World War II-era rural South Carolina are at the heart of this remarkable novel. Little Mac McCloud, son of the sheriff of a remote coastal county, recounts the youthful encounters that shape his world and the stratification that fo...

Reefer Moon

Yancey Yarboro is home from the war and growing tomatoes on his father's ground. Susan Drake, married, beautiful and neglected, lives in a beach house not far away. They have never met, at least not yet. When real estate developers come looking for land to expand a golf course, Yancey wonders if he ...

Blue Roots: African-American Folk Magic of the Gullah People

Raised in the heart of Gullah country, author Roger Pinckney provides an inside look at the history, practices and people of Gullah country, off the coast of South Carolina. On the plantations of the American South, slaves passed their African roots to their descendants in a rich and lasting oral tr...