ABOUT ME
Jocelyn Chabot
I am a novelist and essayist, residing in Charleston, South Carolina. My guest columns and essays appear in the letters section of The Post & Courier, Charleston’s Pulitzer Prize winning daily newspaper.
My first novel, The Spring of Eden. is the story of Marie Freedom, a woman with a troubled past who finds uneasy refuge in a healing waters cult in South Carolina. My second novel, The Woman at the Marbury, is a murder mystery set in 1967- one circle of vodka and valium fueled housewives, two bodies, and three kid detectives. In my third book, A Lost Cause, a dancer disappears without a trace from a North Charleston gentlemen’s club in 1978 – the case remains unsolved until 2020, when the aging club owner tells a series of stories on his deathbed. I am currently working on my fourth novel, Rains Chapel, set on a Lowcountry sea island.
“I grew up all over New England, living in the mountains of New Hampshire before moving to the South Carolina Lowcountry. I have been many things in my life— teacher and student, mother, wife, and daughter — but I have always been a writer.”
LATEST STORIES
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Love of reading letter wins February Golden Pen
We get a lot of letters to the editor about libraries these days: From the far right, they argue that anything that even alludes to sex is “pornographic.” From the far left, they pretend that we are turning our backs on the First Amendment and all that is good about America at the suggestion that…
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Raising Readers
Raising readers The concern lately over which books we can read and where those books will be made available is disquieting, but I felt hope blossom on a recent visit to my local library. I parked in the overly full lot and joined a steady stream of folks, most under 3 years old, entering the…
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Baseball Season in Charleston
Baseball season The breeze from the Ashley River carries a rising murmur of voices throughout the ballpark. The organ plays, the crowd rises. “Play Ball!” It’s baseball season in Charleston. Amid cries of “Peanuts, hot boiled peanuts” and “Hot dogs, get your hottttt dogs,” one team takes the field. The other team lines up to…
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County Fair Memories
Letters: Fall days bring back county fair memories County fair season is upon us, a time for eating sugar-sprinkled fried dough, salty cups of fries, smoked turkey legs and wonderfully random treats deep-fried or dipped in chocolate. But looking back on 40-plus years of county fair attendance, those trips seem less about food and more…
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Ice Cream Memories, July 5, 2023
Letters: Ice cream brings back special memories My memories of ice cream are three-fold, involving adventure, excitement and comfort. When I was very small growing up in Massachusetts, I sometimes accompanied my grandfather to purchase pints of black raspberry and pistachio ice cream at Porter’s, a tiny stand at the end of his street. The flavors…
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Signs of Winter, November 20, 2021
Signs of winter Post & Courier, November 20, 2021 The approach of winter here in the Lowcountry is marked by the hoot of an owl, a sound not noticed or heard in the heat of summer, when the air is heavy and thick, and the constant hum of air conditioning and the whir and click…
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