Ashley Hall Writers Series

Since its creation in 2005, the Ashley Hall’s Writers Series has hosted dozens of award-winning authors on the school’s historic campus located in downtown Charleston. Events are generally free and open to the public. Recent featured guests have included acclaimed art critic for The New Republic Jed Perl, non-fiction writer and poet Lisa Wells, and award-winning food writer Rossi Anastopoulo ’13.
UPCOMING WRITERS SERIES EVENTS
In the coming months, Ashley Hall is pleased to present the following authors:
MARCH 27: Ryan Graudin

ASHLEY HALL WRITERS SERIES PRESENTS: Ryan Graudin
MARCH 27, 2023 | 6:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M. Booksigning to follow
SOTTILE-THOMPSON RECITAL HALL
Young adult and middle grade author Ryan Graudin will kick off the 2023 Ashley Hall Book Festival with a special evening event open to the public on Monday, March 27 at 6 p.m. The event will feature a reading by Graudin followed by a book signing provided by Blue Bicycle Books.
This event is free and open to the public.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ryan Graudin is the award-winning author of eight novels, including the Carnegie nominated Wolf By Wolf duology, Invictus, The Walled City and the The World Between Blinks series. She resides near Charleston with her husband and two daughters where she has been a featured author multiple times for the annual YALLFest program which celebrates young adult and middle grade books. Learn more about Ryan Graudin
UPCOMING RELEASES
Ryan Graudin’s solo middle grade debut The Girl Who Kept the Castle is scheduled to release in fall 2023, with the sequel following in fall 2024. The whimsy of Studio Ghibli meets the wry humor of Diana Wynne Jones in this duology, in which Faye must save the only home she’s ever known when a “not-dead” wizard’s competition to see who will inherit his estate goes awry.
APRIL 20: Elisabeth Griffith

ASHLEY HALL WRITERS SERIES PRESENTS: Elisabeth Griffith
APRIL 20, 2023 | 6:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M. Reception to follow
BURGES AUDITORIUM
Join us as we welcome Elisabeth Griffith, author of Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality, 1920-2020 and In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, to campus on Thursday, April 20 at 6 p.m. This evening event will include a lively discussion moderated by Ashley Hall alumna and acclaimed women’s rights advocate Jennet Robinson Alterman ’70 followed by a reception and book signing provided by Charleston’s Buxton Books.
This event is free and open to the public.
AUTHOR BIO
Historian Elisabeth Griffith is an academic, activist, author, and expert on American women’s history. Her biography of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, In Her Own Right, was hailed by both Oprah and the Wall Street Journal as “one of the five best books on women’s history.” It was the basis of Ken Burns’ documentary on Stanton and Anthony, Not For Ourselves Alone, his only film about women’s history. Learn more about Elisabeth Griffith
PRAISE FOR FORMIDABLE
According to the Los Angeles Times, Griffith’s new book, Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality, 1920-2020, is a “thorough and thoughtful” account of the struggles of white and Black women to expand their rights. The New York Times review found Formidable an “engaging, relevant, sweeping chronicle. [Griffith delivers a] multiracial, inclusive timeline of the struggles and triumphs of both Black and white women. A profoundly illuminating tour de force.”