"Loss is a fiercer, more uncompromising teacher, coldhearted but clear-eyed in its understanding that life is more dilemma than game, and more trial than free pass ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Novelist Pat Conroy, who announced ...

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, ...

Having spent decades of his life there, Pat Conroy always considered his true home to be Beaufort, South Carolina. Its quintessential Lowcountry landscape is a common thread seen in many of his most ...

Pat Conroy has done more to put South Carolina on the map than almost any modern writer, but he’s just getting started. The best-selling author of five novels, all set in the Palmetto State, including ...

I miss knowing that the late-great Pat Conroy is out there in this world. Small consolation, but I keep an eye out these days for his blurbs on new books. I got lucky with “The Cigar Factory: A Novel ...

"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 ...

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 ...

As he lay dying, Pat Conroy's family eased him from this life into the next by reading poems, playing country music and singing to him. "We did sing the Marine Corps Hymn," his sister Kathy Harvey ...

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - After bad health habits nearly killed him, "The Prince of Tides" author Pat Conroy said he is opening a fitness studio near his South Carolina home to help him stay ...

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 ...