"In every one of . . . [novelist Pat] Conroy's big, story-driven Southern books, there has been a father, a son and a holy ghost in the form of an ineffable secret," wrote Tracy Cochran of Publishers Weekly. Conroy has made a cottage...
Pat Conroy's writing is marked by an obsessive interest in the love/hate relationship and its ensuing tensions. Whether between Citadel cadet and "The Boo," young teacher and school superintendent, or teenage son and "Great Santini," this search for...
Pat Conroy (born October 26, 1945 in Atlanta, Georgia), New York Times bestselling author who has written several acclaimed novels and memoirs. He was one of seven children born to Marine Colonel Donald Conroy, of Chicago and the former Frances "Peggy"...
"I was drafted into the United States Marine Corps on the day of my birth, October 26, 1945, and I served the Corps faithfully and proudly for 21 years." So writes Pat Conroy in a moving and deeply troubled memoir of growing up...
Fans of Pat Conroy will soon learn that the author more than knows his way around the kitchen. He mixes his own secret blend of food and story and serves up the resulting melange in his own voice on Recipes from My Life. ...
Graphic depictions of violence, suicide and sexual assault in two Pat Conroy books are at the heart of a First Amendment debate, pitting offended parents against high school students who object to being told what they can't read.Even Conroy has interjected himself into the debate....
The summer is typically a time when news slows down to a snail’s pace. People (including reporters) split for the beach and opt for the latest Pat Conroy novel rather than a daily read of the newspaper. But from the standpoint of Manhattan residential real...
