Victoria Benton Frank

Victoria Benton Frank, author of The Magnolia Summer and The Violet Hour, was born in New York City, raised in Montclair, New Jersey, but considers herself to have dual residency in the Lowcountry. She is a graduate of the College of Charleston and the French Culinary Institute. Victoria worked in restaurants in New York before returning to Charleston, South Carolina, which she calls home, with her husband, two kids, and two dogs. When she isn’t writing, she is reading, cooking, needlepointing, playing Mahjong, or chasing her children.