Pat Conroy
Nato: October 26, 1945 – Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Pat Conroy was an American novelist and memoirist known for vividly portraying family conflict, Southern identity, and personal trauma. His notable works include The Great Santini, The Prince of Tides, The Lords of Discipline, and The Water Is Wide. Several became bestselling books and major film adaptations, cementing his influence in contemporary Southern literature.
Biografia e Percorso dell'Autore
Pat Conroy was born in Atlanta in 1945 and raised across the American South in a Marine Corps family whose instability and rigor would shape nearly everything he later wrote. The eldest of seven children, he grew up under the shadow of an authoritarian father and a deeply influential mother, experiences he would later transform into fiction and memoir with unusual candor. After attending Beaufort High School, he entered The Citadel and graduated in 1967. That education, with its discipline, hierarchy, and emotional strain, became one of the decisive turning points of his life, giving him both subject matter and a lifelong argument with authority.
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Voci della Community
"Pat Conroy wrote a remarkable series of books that strip-mined the bitter memories of his early years in South Carolina"
— The Guardian
"Pat Conroy, one of America's favorite storytellers"
— ABC News
"Pat Conroy was a big-hearted Southern whirlwind of a writer"
— BookPage
"Pat Conroy was a master storyteller, blending the raw material of his difficult family life with the landscape of coastal South Carolina"
— Alabama Public Radio
"Pat Conroy was the best-selling South Carolina author of lyrical, semiautobiographical Southern epics"
— Poets & Writers
"I heard Pat Conroy read his work aloud and it could almost make you abandon writing and take up bricklaying"
— Rick Bragg
"Pat Conroy, the most famous Southern author of the last 50 years"
— Publishers Weekly
"Pat Conroy's best-selling novels drew from his own sometimes painful experiences and evoked the South Carolina coast and its people"
— Associated Press