2023 Great Southern Writer Symposium

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Lisa Wingate is a former journalist, inspirational speaker, and #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of thirty novels. Her work has garnered or been nominated for many awards, including the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize, the Oklahoma Book Award, The Carol Award, the Christy Award, and the RT Booklovers Reviewer’s Choice Award.

Her blockbuster hit Before We Were Yours remained on the New York Times bestseller list for ten months, was Publishers Weekly‘s #3 longest running bestseller of 2017, and was voted by readers as the 2017 Goodreads Choice Award for Historical Fiction. Before We Were Yours has been a book club favorite worldwide and to date has sold well over one million copies. The film rights have been optioned by MGM Studios!

Purchase Ticket: $25.00
Book Signing will be in the Doc Voorhies Wing of the Bayou Teche Museum at 4:00 to 4:30

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