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.
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..
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.
Through their voices, a vibrant, multifaceted portrait of him comes to life and sheds new light on the writer and the man.
Each author in this collection shares a slightly different view of Conroy.
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.
His relationships were complicated, and people and places he thought he\'d left behind often circled back to him at crucial moments.
Conroy\'s was a messy fellowship of people from all walks of 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.
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
