William W. Starr

My new book, "Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster" has been named one of the finalists for the Foreword Review's Travel Book of the Year award! I'm a native of Atlanta who spent many years in South Carolina, 30 of them as as editor and writer for The State newspaper in Columbia. In 2003 I became the executive director of the Georgia Center for the Book. I'm the author of "Southern Writers" with the splendid photographs by David Spielman, and "Guide to South Carolina Beaches." My new book is "Whisky, Kilts and the Loch Ness Monster: Travels Through Scotland with Boswell and Johnson" It's a light-hearted look at the Scotland James Boswell and Samuel Johnson saw in their 1773 journey with contemporary observations from 2007 when I re-traced their steps.