Pat Conroy's Literary Legacy Lives On
Spokesman for a generation
The best-selling American author Pat Conroy (1945-2016) was, first of all, an awesome wordsmith and great storyteller. Four of his thinly-disguised biographies were made into popular movies: Conrack (1974); The Great Santini (1979); The Lords of Discipline (1983) and The Prince of Tides (1991), comedy-tragedies all set at least partly in South Carolina’…
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