The West Ashley Optimist Club welcomes New York Times best selling author Andra Watkins to speak at noon on Tuesday, Jan. 31 at the Sunflower Café in West Ashley.

A non-practicing CPA, Watkins has a degree in accounting from Francis Marion University. But she has also found a second career as a writer. She’s the author of four books and counting. Her acclaimed first novel To Live Forever: An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis was published by Word Hermit Press in 2014.

Not Without My Father: One Woman’s 444-Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace is a memoir about her dysfunctional family adventure; it is a National Book Award nominee and a New York Times best seller.

Natchez Trace: Tracks in Time is a book of photography, shot during her 15-mile daily hikes on her 444-mile Natchez Trace walk.

Hard to Die is Andra’s latest novel, which came out in November. It’s an afterlife story of Theodosia Burr Alston, tragic daughter of Aaron Burr and subject of the song “Dear Theodosia” from the Tony-award-winning Broadway production Hamilton: An American Musical.

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