The University of South Carolina Press is an

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associated with the University of South Carolina. It was founded in 1944. By the early 1990s, the press had published several surveys of women's writing in the southern United States in a series called Women's Diaries and Letters of the Nineteenth Century South, edited by

Carol Bleser Carol may refer to: People with the name *Carol (given name) * Henri Carol (1910–1984), French composer and organist *Martine Carol (1920–1967), French film actress * Sue Carol (1906–1982), American actress and talent agent, wife of actor A ...

. According to

Casey Clabough Casey Clabough (pronounced "Clay-bo"), (January 31, 1974-January 1, 2023)was an American writer, farmer, and professor in the Etowah Valley Writers MFA at Reinhardt University. Clabough was born in Richmond, Virginia, and raised primarily on a f ...

, the quality of its list of authors and

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became substantially better between the 2000s and 2010s.

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1944 establishments in South Carolina Academic publishing companies University of South Carolina {{SouthCarolina-stub