William P. Baldwin is an award-winning novelist, biographer and historian. A lifelong resident of the Carolina Lowcountry, his works include Plantations of the Low Country; Low Country Plantations Today; and the oral histories Mrs. Whaley and her Charleston Garden, Heaven is a Beautiful Place and Journey of a Hope Merchant. Baldwin’s novel , The Hard to Catch Mercy, won the Lillian Smith Award for fiction. He is married with two grown sons, two wonderful daughter-in-laws, three near perfect grandchildren and a kayak. And he’s a big, big fan of Lowcountry cooking.