2025 Frances Mims-​Paul Talmadge Literary​
Advocacy Award Lunch​
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Founded in 1986 at Anderson University (then Anderson College), the South Carolina Academy of Authors' principal purpose is to identify and recognize the state’s distinguished writers and promote their literature’s influence on our cultural heritage. The late Frances Mims, an English professor at Anderson College, and the late Paul Talmadge, a vice president and academic dean at Anderson College, established the academy together. The SCAA’s literary advocacy award honors them.

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