Happy belated St. Patrick’s Day! We celebrate it as a holiday here at America, which cuts down on unexcused absences every March 17. And though this column comes a day too late, it is a fitting ...

The Pat Conroy Literary Center is hosting a free Book Challenges Forum open to the public Sunday, which comes on the heels of a controversy over the recent removal of nearly 100 Beaufort County school ...

Pat Conroy had a hard time writing less than a thousand pages at a time — much to his editors’ chagrin. Living with Pat Conroy was a similarly overwhelming experience. “It was a story a day, that’s ...

Married, best-selling South Carolina authors Cassandra King and the late Pat Conroy are shown at their home in Beaufort. Rob McDonald Pat Conroy Literary Center Pat Conroy would have been 80 this ...

Since Pat Conroy's death in 2016, the celebrated author of "The Great Santini" and "The Prince of Tides" has been warmly remembered in an authorized biography ("My Exaggerated Life" as told to ...

(AP) – 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 ...