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 ...

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, 70, best-selling Southern author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, his publisher, Doubleday, announced on Monday. In the statement, ...

Columbia, SC (WLTX) Iconic Southern writer Pat Conroy has died. According to numerous tweets and confirmed by his alma mater The Citadel, Conroy died Friday evening. He was 70. Best know for writing ...

"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 ...

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, ...

House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday he accepts the decision by the Rev. Pat Conroy, the House chaplain, to rescind his resignation, following a week's worth of lawmakers from both parties ...

Pat Conroy, whose best-selling novels drew from his own sometimes painful experiences and evoked vistas of the South Carolina coast and its people, has died. Todd Doughty, executive director of ...

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 ...