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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Especially if the “bro” is Pat Conroy. But Bernie Schein of Beaufort, Conroy’s best friend since their days shooting hoops together at Beaufort High School in the early 1960s, says today, “No pain, no ...

BEAUFORT, S.C (WTOC) - The eighth annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival is Oct. 26-29 in Beaufort. It celebrates Pat Conroy’s legacy in the Lowcountry. The festival is hosted by the Pat Conroy Literary ...

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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 ...