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Tumultuous childhood and complex family dynamics
- Pat Conroy was inspired to become a writer by his tumultuous childhood and complex family dynamics, which provided rich material for his novels.
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Donald Patrick Conroy (October 26, 1945 – March 4, 2016) was an American author who wrote several acclaimed novels and memoirs; his books The Water is Wide, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini were made into films, the last two being nominated for Oscars.
Pat first met Roland at an event at the Penn Center on St Helena’s Island while both were in high school, at a time when schools were still segregated in South Carolina. Pat went on to become a bestselling writer and Roland a nationally recognized as a leader in community medicine.
In the case of MY EXAGGERATED LIFE, Pat Conroy did not write this memoir, nor did I write his biography. Instead, I recorded about 200 hours of conversation on the phone with him, had these recordings professionally transcribed, and then edited the transcripts into the narrative that forms the book.
Conroy decided to write the memoir (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, on sale Tuesday) "as a kind of summary" two years ago when he thought he was dying. In an interview at his publisher's...
Mar 20, 2018 · When he died on March 4, 2016, we lost one of the last of a generation of Southern writers whose humorous, riveting, sad, terrifying and redemptive stories captured the ragged ways families fall in and out of love and hope.
Long before Augusten Burroughs was running with scissors, a big-hearted Southern whirlwind of a writer named Pat Conroy served as America’s unofficial poster boy for family dysfunction.
Pat Conroy's bestselling novels made the Atlanta-born writer one of the most highly praised, most widely-known Georgia authors of the last half-century. Donald Patrick Conroy grew up as the oldest son of an autocratic military man and a mother who instilled in him a love of literature and language.
