| Our Prince of Scribes Writers Remember Pat Conroy | | | Editor:
| Seitz, Nicole
Haupt, Jonathan | | Contribution by:
| Seitz, Nicole
Ashley, Dottie
Balk, William A.
Bragg, Rick
Brewer, Sonny
Brown, Sandra
Carroll, Jonathan
Carroll, Ryder
Childress, Mark
Clark, Katherine
Cleveland, John Connor
Conroy, Melissa
Conroy, Tim
Covington, Debbi
Dupree, Nathalie
Edgar, Walter
Edwards, Stephanie Austin
Evans, Margaret
Finney, Nikky
Fowler, Connie May
Galassi, Jonathan
Goldman, Judy
Graber, Scott
Graubart, Cliff
Graubart, Cynthia
Grooms, Anthony
Helsley, Alexia
Henry, Patti Callahan
Hood, Mary
Humphreys, Josephine
Ian, Janis
Kay, Terry
Lane, John
Lauderdale, David
Malphrus, Ellen
Marlette, Andy
McClain, Bren
Miller, Teresa
Minor, Wendell
Monroe, Mary
Morris, Michael
Murphy, Kathy L.
O'Keefe, Michael
Oney, Steve
Parker, Kathleen
Powell, Mark
Rash, Ron
Robinson, Sallie Ann
Rowland, Lawrence S.
Sanchez, Jonathan
Sanders, Alex
Sayers, Valerie
Scapellato, Sean
Schein, Bernie
Schein, Maggie
Seldon, Lynn
Seltzer, Catherine
Siddons, Anne Rivers
Singleton, George
Walsh, William
Warley, John
Warlick, Ashley
Weaver, Teresa K.
Wentworth, Marjory | | Foreword by:
| Streisand, Barbra | | Afterword by:
| Conroy, Cassandra King | | ISBN: | 978-0-8203-5685-3 | | Publication Date: | Sep 2019 | | Publisher: | University of Georgia Press
| | Book Format: | Paperback | | List Price: | USD $24.95 | Book Description:
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New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945-2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In sharing their stories of Conroy, his fellow writers honor his memory and advance our shared understanding of his lasting impact on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary life...
More Description New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945-2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In sharing their stories of Conroy, his fellow writers honor his memory and advance our shared understanding of his lasting impact on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary life in and well beyond the American South.
Conroy's was a messy fellowship of people from all walks of life. His relationships were complicated, and people and places he thought he'd left behind often circled back to him at crucial moments. The pantheon of contributors includes Pulitzer Prize winners Rick Bragg and Kathleen Parker; Grammy winners Barbra Streisand and Janis Ian; Lillian Smith Award winners Anthony Grooms and Mary Hood; National Book Award winner Nikky Finney; James Beard Foundation Award winners Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart; a corps of New York Times best-selling authors, including Ron Rash, Sandra Brown, and Mary Alice Monroe; Conroy biographers Katherine Clark and Catherine Seltzer; longtime Conroy friends Bernie Schein, Cliff Graubart, John Warley, and Walter Edgar; Pat's students Sallie Ann Robinson and Valerie Sayers; members of the Conroy family; and many more.
Each author in this collection shares a slightly different view of Conroy. Through their voices, a vibrant, multifaceted portrait of him comes to life and sheds new light on the writer and the man. Loosely following Conroy's own chronology, the essays in Our Prince of Scribes wind through his river of a story, stopping at important ports of call. Cities he called home and longed to visit, along with each book he birthed, become characters that are as equally important as the people he touched and loved along the way. | |