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Famed South Carolina author Pat Conroy knew how to tell a story. It was his lifeblood, penning best-selling novels and nonfiction works. “He believed that all of us have at least one story to tell, ...

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 ...

Pat Conroy had a hard time writing less than a thousand pages at a time — much to his editors’ chagrin. Living with Pat Conroy was a similarly overwhelming experience. “It was a story a day, that’s ...

“A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.” That was the transformative lesson young Pat Conroy (1945–2016) learned from his mother Peggy. Born Francis Margaret Peek in 1925, the ...

TELL ME A STORY: My Life With Pat Conroy. By Cassandra King Conroy. William Morrow. 400 pages. $24.99. Picking up “Tell Me a Story,” Cassandra King Conroy’s memoir of her life with Pat Conroy, we know ...

Pat Conroy has read a lot of books. Spurred on by a challenge by a “glorious” high-school English teacher, the author of books such as “The Great Santini,” “The Lords of Discipline” and “The Prince of ...

“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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We’re talking about the late Pat Conroy, and this is familiar territory for me. Pat Conroy was the greatest American author of the 20th century, my absolute favorite writer, a man whose best works – ...