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Nell S. Graydon
NELL SAUNDERS GRAYDON (May 13, 1893 - July 14, 1986) was a popular American author best known for her novels set in her adopted state of South Carolina.
She was born in Pineville, N.C., about ten ...view moreNELL SAUNDERS GRAYDON (May 13, 1893 - July 14, 1986) was a popular American author best known for her novels set in her adopted state of South Carolina.
She was born in Pineville, N.C., about ten miles south of Charlotte. Her mother died when she was young, and her father remarried when she was 16. She earned a degree in English and drama from Elizabeth College, a Lutheran school in Charlotte. In 1914 she married Sterling Graydon (1884-1974), who was working in the textile business in Charlotte, and the couple had a daughter, Virginia Graydon Davies (1916-1999). The Graydons moved to Greenwood, S.C. in 1930, living in the upcountry, but spent many summers on Edisto Island, where she developed a love for the low country and for its land, its people and the unique way of life there.
Her active and energetic mind uncovered stories of the long ago and she began sending some of these tales to newspapers and magazines. They were accepted for publication and a writer was born. She wrote her first book on Edisto, the coastal island where she spent many summers. Tales of Edisto (1955) was an immediate success, and was followed by Another Jezebel (1958), a novel about a Yankee spy in South Carolina. Her other works include Tales of Beaufort (1963), Tales of Columbia (1964), Eliza of Wappoo (1967), and Nell Graydon’s Cookbook: From My House to Your House (1969).
She died in 1986 and is buried in Greenwood, S.C.view less