Dorothea Benton Frank

Dorothea Benton Frank is an American author of Southern fiction. She is best known for her Lowcountry Tales series, set in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. Dot worked in the apparel industry from 1972 until 1985 and then organized fundraisers as a volunteer, before becoming a novelist. She enjoys cooking, fly fishing and travelling. She splits her time between the Lowcountry of South Carolina and New Jersey. Dorothea Benton Frank became a published author in 2000 with Sullivan’s Island, which debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List at #9. The novel has more than one million copies in print and was translated into ten other languages. Below is a list of Dorothea Benton Frank’s books in order of when they were first published: Note: All the Single Ladies is also known as Carolina Girls.