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Welcome to the official website of Pat Conroy. Pat Conroy uses stories to explore the great themes of life. His honesty and remarkable command of the language of the heart have won him devoted readers of the world. This is for all of you who come to this web site.
Pat Conroy, born on October 26, 1945 in Atlanta, was the first of seven children of a young Marine officer from Chicago and a Southern beauty from Alabama, to whom Pat often credits for his love of language.
A Lowcountry Heart [2016] The Death of Santini [2013] My Reading Life [2010] South of Broad [2009] Beach Music [1995] The Prince of Tides [1986] The Lords of Discipline [1980] The Great Santini [1976] The Water is Wide [1972] The Boo [1970] My Losing Season [2002] Pat Conroy Cookbook [2004]
THE WATER IS WIDE is Pat Conroy’s extraordinary memoir based on his experience as the only teacher in a two-room schoolhouse, working with children the world had pretty much forgotten. It was a year that changed his life, and one that introduced a group of poor black children to a world they did not know existed.
In this memoir, Conroy unflinchingly reveals that his father, fighter pilot Donald Conroy, was actually much worse than the abusive Meechum in his novel. Telling the truth also forces the author to confront a number of difficult realizations about himself.
In this best-selling novel, Pat Conroy tells the story of Tom Wingo, his twin sister, Savannah, and the dark and violent past of the family into which they were born.
Against the sumptuous backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina, SOUTH OF BROAD gathers a unique cast of sinners and saints. Leopold Bloom King, our narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school.
The one room school on Daufuskie Island when Pat Conroy taught Pat Conroy’s first memoir The Water is Wide and the later release of the movie based on the book which was called CONRACK (with John Voight) inspired innumerable young people to choose a teaching profession.
Pat Conroy talks about the South, his mother, and The Prince of Tides. (Taken from a speech delivered at the annual American Booksellers Association convention in 1985) My mother, southern to the bone, once told me, “All southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what ...
Booklist. “If you relish the literary equivalent of a gospel shout-out, it’s tough to trump “My Reading Life,” Pat Conroy’s charming chronicle of his lifelong devotion to language, writing and books.
