Married, best-selling South Carolina authors Cassandra King and the late Pat Conroy are shown at their home in Beaufort. Rob McDonald Pat Conroy Literary Center Pat Conroy would have been 80 this ...

Even some of Pat Conroy’s close friends didn’t know where he wanted to be buried. It was early 2016 and the author, suffering from cancer, had been severely ill for a month. But after the funeral mass ...

It’s a year of even numbers. The Pat Conroy Literary Festival reaches its 10th year and plans to celebrate its namesake’s birthday. Conroy, the beloved Beaufort-based novelist who died in 2016, would ...

Gore Vidal tells an anecdote about visiting Tennessee Williams in New Orleans and editing a short story Williams had just completed. After cutting modifiers, activating verbs and taming metaphors, ...

“In fifty years I would be seventy-four, an old curmudgeon with a hairless, toothless head; the geriatric remnant of the forties, whose blood had dried, whose youth had withered, whose dreams had died ...

“I am a patriot of a singular geography on the planet; I speak of my country religiously; I am proud of its landscape. I walk through the traffic of cities ...

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The Pat Conroy Literary Center is hosting a free Book Challenges Forum open to the public Sunday, which comes on the heels of a controversy over the recent removal of nearly 100 Beaufort County school ...

Pat Conroy, read by Dick Hill. Random House Audio, unabridged, 12 CDs, 15.25 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-0-307-98982-6 Conroy’s memoir chronicles his relationship with his domineering fighter-pilot father, ...

The 2022 Pat Conroy Literary Festival kicks off this week in Beaufort County with a special section dedicated to highlighting Lowcountry teachers in honor of the 50th anniversary of the author’s ...

Pat Conroy was born on October 26, 1945, in Atlanta, Georgia, to a young career military officer from Chicago and a Southern beauty from Alabama, whom Pat often credits for his love of language. He ...

Pat Conroy, 70, best-selling Southern author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, his publisher, Doubleday, announced on Monday. In the statement, ...