Heaven is a Beautiful Place
adapted by William P. Baldwin
Author William P. Baldwin is accepting inquiries for the Award Winning Screenplay adapted from the beloved memoir of “Sister” Genevieve Peterkin.
Acclaimed author William P. Baldwin has adapted his memoir of Sister Peterkin into a screenplay.
Baldwin is the author of multiple novels and memoirs and is a winner of the Lillian Smith Award and the Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook Award and a finalist for the Southern Circle Critics Award.
His screen adaptation of Heaven is a Beautiful Place won him a Silver Remy at the Houston International Film Festival.
Published by USC Press, Heaven is a Beautiful Place is more than a memoir. Born in 1928 in the small coastal town of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, Genevieve “Sister” Peterkin grew up with World War II bombing practice in her front yard, deep-sea fishing expeditions, and youthful rambles through the lowcountry. She shared her bedroom with a famous ghost and an impatient older sister. But most of all she listened. She absorbed the tales of her talented mother and her beloved friend, listened to the stories of the region’s older residents, some of them former slaves, who were her friends, neighbors, and teachers. Beneath the humor, hauntings, and treasures of local history, she tells another, deeper story—one that deals with the struggle for racial equality in the South, with the sometimes painful adventures of marriage and parenthood, and with inner struggles for faith and acceptance.
