Oct 2021 Book Program

About the Event

About the Author

Ann Hite, one of Georgia's most influential authors, is President of the Georgia Writers Association.  Within the last decade, she has achieved both literary recognition and popular acclaim for her award-winning Black Mountain Series of southern ghost stories told in choruses of women's voices.  These female voices speak amid life stresses as well as from beyond the grave. Intergenerational damage done by family secrets and complicated mother-daughter relationships are recurring themes. Ann Hite is considered by her many fans as the Queen of Southern Gothic fiction.

Her debut novel, published at age 51, was a finalist for the Townsend Prize, and she was named a 2012 Georgia Author of the Year - First Novel. That novel not only won literary award; its great popularity garnered a legion of loyal fans who eagerly awaited more stories from Ann Hite about her haunted locales. Developing a…