MICHAEL M. DEWITT JR

Lowcountry author Michael M. DeWitt Jr. is a multiple-award-winning journalist, humorist, columnist and newspaper editor who has been published in several newspapers and magazines in South Carolina and Georgia. The editor and publisher of the 136-year-old Hampton County Guardian, DeWitt is also the author of Images of America-Hampton County, a photo history book published by Arcadia Publishing in May 2015. Since May 2012, he was worked as the humor columnist and a contributing writer for South Carolina Wildlife magazine. A family man, lackluster farmer and amateur outdoorsman, in his spare time DeWitt volunteers with local arts councils and for several years has been a co-playwright for Salkehatchie Stew, a five-county oral history, storytelling and community theater project driven by the University of South Carolina Salkehatchie in Allendale.