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In 1970, Billy Keyserling photographed Pat Conroy teaching on Daufuskie Island, capturing a rare look at the future author’s ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

"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 ...

“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 ...

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 has always sought refuge in books. As a child growing up in a military family, Conroy learned from his mother that books could be his constant companions as the family shuttled from Marine ...

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, the beloved author of “The Great Santini” and “The Prince of Tides” and other best-sellers who drew upon his bruising childhood and the vistas of South Carolina and became one of the ...