Herb Frazier

On Season 1 of Books By The River, Holly Jackson sits down with Joseph McGill Jr. and Herb Frazier to discuss their powerful book, Sleeping with the Ancestors.

Herb Frazier is a Charleston, South Carolina-based writer. He’s the special projects editor for the Charleston City Paper, and the former marketing director at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens in Charleston. Before he joined Magnolia, Herb edited and reported for five daily newspapers in the South, including his hometown paper, The Post and Courier.

In 1990, the South Carolina Press Association named him Journalist of the Year. He has taught news writing as a visiting lecturer at Rhodes University in South Africa. He is a former Michigan Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan. He studied journalism at the University of South Carolina.

After leaving daily journalism in 2006, Herb led journalism workshops in Sierra Leone, Zambia, Ghana, Suriname, Guyana and The Gambia for the U.S. government and a Washington-based journalism foundation. Herb’s international reporting includes West Germany during the fall of the Berlin Wall, humanitarian post-war relief efforts in Bosnia and Rwanda during its post-genocide recovery, social and political issues in Japan and South Korea and Cuba’s cultural ties with Florida and Lowcountry South Carolina. He also reported on the conflict in Sierra Leone. Herb has written about the historical and cultural ties between West Africa and the Gullah Geechee people of coastal South Carolina and Georgia.