Pat Conroy, who turned tales of his painfully dysfunctional family into best-selling novels such as "The Great Santini" and "The Prince of Tides," died Friday at the age of 70, his publishing company ...

(NEW YORK) — Pat Conroy, the bestselling author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, his publisher said Monday. “Pat is currently undergoing ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Author Pat Conroy, whose beloved works "The Great Santini" and "The Prince of Tides" are set against the vistas of the South Carolina coast that was his home, was lauded ...

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, ...

“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 ...

NEW YORK - Pat Conroy says he knows so little about e-books that he didn't realize his work could be downloaded until a fan showed him during a recent promotional tour. "I was at a signing in Georgia, ...

"South of Broad," Southern wordsmith Pat Conroy's long-awaited return to the novel, is all about facades. These false fronts set the matrix for a story dense with quirky characters, enchanted settings ...

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 ...

DAUFUSKIE ISLAND — Pat Conroy earned acclaim when he authored “The Water Is Wide,” which chronicled the year he spent teaching Black students in a segregated school on this remote Beaufort County ...

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