My new memoir The Drive: Searching for Lost Memories on the Pan-American Highway hits the shelves June 13th. It's from Seal Press, an imprint of Perseus Books, a Hachette Book Company and I couldn't be more excited about sharing an amazing story of travel and adventure. My writing career began with documentaries that aired on PBS – I’m most proud of “God’s Gonna Trouble The Water” narrated by Ruby Dee and set on the Sea Islands of Beaufort and St. Helena. When I left Beaufort to run the broadcast division of Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, the writer I most admire signed a photograph for me with these words: “I hope your period of exile from Beaufort is not long Teresa – much love, Pat Conroy.” My exile from Beaufort turned into a filmmaking sojourn – until I gave it all up to spend a year retracing my nomadic childhood through Latin America (hint: the new book!)