“S” is for Sayers, Valerie (b. 1952). Author. A native of Beaufort, Sayers was educated in local schools. She graduated from Fordham University and earned an M.F.A. from Columbia University. In 1993 she joined the English department faculty at the University of Notre Dame, where she became director of the master of fine arts program in creative writing. She is the author of six novels and a number of short stories. Her first novel, Due East serves as an anchor work for her subsequent novels. Due East is the name Sayers gives to the thinly disguised Beaufort of her youth and adolescence. Her fiction is wholeheartedly unsentimental, and its narrative force is carried by the author’s strong display of comic irony. In 1992, Valerie Sayers was the National Endowment for the Arts literature fellow.
“S” is for Sayers, Valerie (b. 1952)
