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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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“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 ...

“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 ...

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 – ...

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, ...

House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday he accepts the decision by the Rev. Pat Conroy, the House chaplain, to rescind his resignation, following a week's worth of lawmakers from both parties ...

When I told my mom I was interviewing Cassandra King Conroy, wife of the late Pat Conroy, she was jealous, and a little starstruck. “Oh, honey,” she said on the phone. “How cool!” (This is how I knew ...

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 ...