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William P. Baldwin
Author Biography
William P. Baldwin is a lifelong resident of the Carolina Lowcountry. He and his wife Lil have two grown sons, two wonderful daughters-in-law, and two nearly perfect grandchildren. Over the years Baldwin has worked as a shrimper, a building contractor, and most importantly a writer. He is the author of the well-received novel The Hard to Catch Mercy and has collaborated with N. Jane Iseley on several projects, including the original Plantations of the Low Country: South Carolina 1697–1865. He is co-author of Mrs. Whaley and Her Charleston Garden and Sister Peterkin’s Heaven Is a Beautiful Place.
Books by this Author
Lowcountry Plantations Today
Published 2001
$59.95 (Hardcover)
Fourteen years in the planning and three years in the making, Lowcountry Plantations Today is renowned photographer N. Jane Iseley’s and award-winning writer William P. Baldwin’s loving tribute to the Carolina Lowcountry. Access to these incredible homes is limited; the treasures they contain are seldom seen. From the monumental serenity of the Palladian Drayton Hall to Frank Lloyd Wright’s revolutionary Auldbrass, we witness the evolution of the plantation house—and the evolution of interiors and gardens, as well.
Charleston
Published 1997
$34.95 (Hardcover), $19.95 (Softcover)
The centerpiece city of the Carolina Lowcountry, Charleston is known for its quaint and gentle pleasures. Blazing azalea blossoms. Cobblestones and a patch of peeling stucco. A bowl of she-crab soup. Stately church bells pealing. Fresh photography and richly detailed text capture the stunning beauty of the South Battery and Charleston’s Old World streetscapes, its gardens and gates. Treasures include the Aiken-Rhett slave quarters and the beshadowed baptismal font of St. Michael’s Church. Come along. You’re invited in.
Lowcountry Daytrips
Published 1991
$9.95 (Softcover)
This guide is your informal invitation, so dress comfortably. An automobile and a modest sense of adventure are all that’s required. The Carolina Lowcountry extends along the coast from the Savannah River north to Murrells Inlet and inland forty miles. Roughly at its center is the fabled city of Charleston, and it’s from there that these organized day trips begin. Between these covers you’ll find all you need to know about the region’s history, natural wonders, architecture, gardens, folklore, archaeology and more.
Plantations of the Low Country
Published 1986
$19.95 (Softcover)
Open the doors to many of the most beautiful homes of the South for a glimpse into a vanished world of prosperous plantations and provincial aristocracy. Arranged around the river systems that were the life’s blood of plantation life, the book is both a survey of Lowcountry architecture and a history of the men and women who lived, worked and worshipped here. This comprehensive record presents the homes, outbuildings, churches and ruins left for us by the early residents of the South Carolina Lowcountry.