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 ...

As he lay dying, Pat Conroy's family eased him from this life into the next by reading poems, playing country music and singing to him. "We did sing the Marine Corps Hymn," his sister Kathy Harvey ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Pat Conroy loves language, as has been abundantly evident throughout his career. Alas, with "South of Broad,'' his first novel in 14 years, the author too often lets his infatuation with words devolve ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The South Carolina Book Club discussed a book by a renowned Lowcountry author at this month’s meeting. The club talked about “The Prince of Tides”, which is inspired by South ...

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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