Georgia Writers Museum is hosting their next “Meet The Author” Event with Southern Novelist, Gervais Hagerty. It will be held on February 1st at 7 p.m. and there will be low-country style appetizers and cocktails.

Gervais Hagerty has been surrounded by southern literature much of her adult life, and began a passion to write southern fiction after teaching communications and public speaking for years at the Citadel. Early and later mentoring from the likes of Georgia Writers Hall of Fame members Pat Conroy and Anne Rivers Siddons, and also best selling author Mary Alice Monroe drove that passion. And it all resulted in the publication this past August of "In Polite Company", her debut novel.

"In Polite Company" is a captivating debut novel that looks inside the private lives of Charleston aristocracy, where a former debutante learns that sometimes good behavior leads to bad decisions.

Gervais was born in Atlanta, Georgia and raised in Charleston, South Carolina. She earned her B.A. in psychology from Vanderbilt University. After reporting and producing the news for both radio and television, she taught communications, public speaking, & leadership at The Citadel. When not writing, she works on local environmental and transportation issues.

She lives in Charleston with her husband and daughters.