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	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Pat Conroy (b. 1945)
		In 1999 Conroy was presented with the inaugural Stanley W. Lindberg Award for significant contributions to the literary heritage of Georgia.
		In Conroy's prefatory note it is identified more generally as "the military school as it has evolved in America." A staunch individualist like other Conroy heroes, McLean finds himself in fierce opposition to "The Ten," a conspiratorial group of fellow cadets appointed to enforce and perpetuate the institute's policy of intimidation, prejudice, and harassment.
		Pat Conroy's novels are essentially "coming of age" or "initiation" stories in which the male protagonists undergo long and perilous quests in search of maturity and wholeness.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?path=/Literature/Fiction/Authors&id=h-500 (1444 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Pat Conroy - Books: Meet the Writers
		Pat Conroy was born on October 26, 1945, in Atlanta, Georgia, to a young career military officer from Chicago and a Southern beauty from Alabama, whom Pat often credits for his love of language.
		After a year, Pat was fired for his unconventional teaching practices -- such as his unwillingness to allow corporal punishment of his students -- and for his general lack of respect for the school's administration.
		Conroy evened the score when he exposed the racism and appalling conditions his students endured with the publication of The Water is Wide in 1972.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writerdetails.asp?z=y&cid=586909 (749 words)

	Pat Conroy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Conroy's stories have been heavily influenced by his upbringing and by tragedies in his family over the years.
		Conroy is a graduate of The Citadel, and his experiences there provided the setting, if not the plot, for The Lords of Discipline.
		Conroy was fired at the conclusion of his first year of teaching on the island for his unconventional teaching practices, including his refusal to use corporal punishment on students, and for his lack of respect for the school's administraiton.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pat_Conroy (286 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Pat Conroy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Pat Conroy was born on October 26, 1945, in Atlanta, Georgia, to a young career military officer from Chicago and a Southern beauty from Alabama, whom Pat often credits for his love of language.
		After a year, Pat was fired for his unconventional teaching practices--such as his unwillingness to allow corporal punishment of his students--and for his general lack of respect for the school's administration.
		Conroy evened the score when he exposed the racism and appalling conditions his students endured with publication of The Water is Wide in 1972.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pat-Conroy (820 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Water Is Wide: Books: Pat Conroy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Conroy readily admits that he was filled with white liberal guilt by his early twenties, and he was ready to save the world when he plunged headlong into the Yamacraw teaching position nobody else wanted.
		Conroy spent a year on the improverished, virtually isolated and forgotten Yamacraw Island off the South Carolina coast as teacher to an economically and socially devastated group of children, most African-Americans, that the outside world seems to have cast off and neglected until Conroy reaches shore.
		Although Pat Conroy's "The Water is Wide" talked about the injustices many of the poor fls dealt with, it did so in a humorous tone that made the reader feel that "everything is going to be alright." Conroy himself, is the main character who displays incredible courage and dedication toward his occupation.
	www.amazon.ca /Water-Is-Wide-Pat-Conroy/dp/0553268937 (1318 words)

	The World of Pat Conroy: The Great Santini/the Lords of Discipline/the Prince of Tides/the Water Is Wide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Pat Conroy takes you on a roller coster ride through stories so well explained that you can feel that you are really there in the middle of the action.
		Pat Conroy's novel, which is a long read if you've seen the book or if you've read it, is a rich and romantic story telling of the lives of Tom Wingo, a Southern man with a dark past, and his love affair with New York psychiatrist Susan Lowenstein.
		Pat conroy is frighteningly truthful in this must read novel about a boys experience in a tough-life military school and his transition from boyhood to being a man. Will Mclean is the narator and hero of this novel.
	www.freeglossary.com /p:055361830X (402 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Pat Conroy - Books: Meet the Writers
		Pat Conroy's novels are populated with domineering fathers, Southern belles of steel, and inexorable tragedy; all are elements the author is familiar with from his own life, and he has drawn on them to create unforgettable books.
		Conroy's heartbreaking tale of a Southern man's reckoning with his past was a bestseller with a price: His sister saw herself in the book and cut off ties with him.
		Pat Conroy is well known to fans as a lover of good food -- but what may surprise them is that he has had a passion for cooking for more than thirty years.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?cid=586909&z=y&vcqty=1 (323 words)

	CNN.com - Books - At mid-life, Pat Conroy tries to write his own happy ending - November 17, 2000
		Conroy has been in therapy for years, and his doctor was there for him when he had his worst, most suicidal breakdown, which occurred after he finished "Beach Music," which was published in 1995.
		Conroy believes the colonel took "Santini" as a personal challenge to become the father he had always thought he was.
		Conroy resigned himself long ago to the fact that his father would never say the words, "I love you" or "I'm proud of you." But it's clear he still suffers from the want of those words.
	www.cnn.com /2000/books/news/11/17/pat.conroy.ap (1962 words)

	Amazon.ca: My Losing Season: Books: Pat Conroy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Conroy spends a good many pages describing his elementary, middle and high school basketball careers; while this would be fitting if the book were an autobiography or even if it were solely about Conroy's love of basketball, it seems pointless as the novel claims to center around a single season.
		Author Pat Conroy is the small guy at the front and center of the old fl and white photo, kneeling alongside the basketball, a spot typically reserved for the team captain.
		Pat Conroy was abused emotionally, verbally and physically by his father, a pilot in the Marine Corp. And if that abuse wasn't enough, he tells an amazing story of survival as a freshman plebe at The Citadel in South Carolina.
	www.amazon.ca /My-Losing-Season-Pat-Conroy/dp/0385489129 (2226 words)

	Honorees - Pat Conroy
		Pat Conroy's bestselling novels have made the Atlanta-born writer one of the most highly praised, most widely-known Georgia authors of the past half-century.
		Conroy has identified Thomas Wolfe as an early, influential literary model, and critics typically note how, like Wolfe, Conroy favors expansive, lyrical prose and his stories center upon family relationships that are typically laced with a strong (identifiably Southern) sense of place.
		Pat Conroy's many literary awards include the Georgia Governor's Award for Arts (1978), the Southern Regional Council's Lillian Smith Award for fiction (1981) and the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust's Humanitarian Award (1996).
	www.libs.uga.edu /gawriters/conroy.html (818 words)

	MPR Books - "My Losing Season" by Pat Conroy
		(From the publisher) Pat Conroy was the first of seven children, born on October 26, 1945 in Atlanta, to a young career military officer from Chicago and a Southern beauty from Alabama.
		After a year, Conroy was fired for his unconventional teaching practices—among them his refusal to allow corporal punishment for his students—and for his general lack of respect for the school's administration.
		Conroy remarried and moved to Rome, where he wrote The Prince of Tides (1986), which became his most successful book—and was also made into a movie.
	www.mpr.org /www/books/titles/conroy_losingseason.shtml (752 words)

	Pat Conroy
		Novelist Pat Conroy was born on October 26, 1945, in Atlanta, Georgia.
		Conroy's mother, on the other hand, was as mild mannered as his father was tough.
		Conroy said, "She was poor white trash who spent her whole life denying it as bitterly and vehemently as she could...[she] was really the first fiction writer in the family."
	amsaw.org /amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-102604-conroy.html (886 words)

	Pat Conroy Interview
		Conroy, your protagonist in PRINCE OF TIDES was sharply drawn.
		Conroy, it is a great joy to be able to communicate with you.
		Conroy, I had the pleasure of meeting you this summer at a Beaufort debutante party.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/7315/conroy.html (1581 words)

	BookPage Interview October 2002: Pat Conroy
		Pat Conroy didn't set out to rectify that inequity by writing My Losing Season, a painfully detailed memoir of his senior year on the 1966-67 Citadel Bulldogs basketball squad that soldiered through an ignominious 8-17 season.
		Conroy was at a personal low point in 1996 when a former teammate stopped by his Dayton, Ohio, book signing for his most recent novel, Beach Music.
		Conroy spent the next year dropping in on his former teammates, picking their memories to reconstruct a season most had worked hard to forget.
	www.bookpage.com /0210bp/pat_conroy.html (991 words)

	Southern Living Travel and Vacations: Pat Conroy's Lowcountry
		Pat Conroy, living in Europe and homesick for his beloved South Carolina Lowcountry, began The Prince of Tides with four words as elegantly succinct as a sea's horizon and as complex as the twist of a marsh creek: "My wound is geography." Then he added, "It is also my anchorage, my port of call."
		Pat's works defined his geography as a national treasure, and the power of his words lured thousands of readers to visit.
		To this Lowcountry Pat arrived in 1961 at age 15, the son of a marine fighter pilot and "a child from nowhere," as he calls himself.
	www.southernliving.com /southern/travel/heritage/article/0,28012,681471,00.html (786 words)

	Amazon.com: The Prince of Tides: Books: Pat Conroy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		But Conroy is so intent on establishing his bonafides as a liberal white southern male and proselytizing to that end that he sometimes looses focus and neglects the essential elements of his story telling.
		Conroy seems all too willing to accept the pre-packaged bromides of the therapeutic culture in order to explain Tom Wingo's shortcomings and it is here Conroy fails to deliver his unique insights but yields instead to the experts.
		Pat Conroy is obviously a master of the English language with an expansive vocabulary.
	www.amazon.com /Prince-Tides-Pat-Conroy/dp/0553268880 (2627 words)

	Borders - Feature - Winning Isn't Everything: Pat Conroy's New Memoir Looks Back at What Was Gained by Losing
		In some way, The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides are Conroy's efforts to quell the demons associated, respectively, with his brutal father, the sufferings he endured under the plebe system at his alma mater—The Citadel, in Charleston, South Carolina—and his sister's mental illness.
		Now, in midlife, Conroy reflects on his last year at The Citadel, when he was an undersized and undertalented but gritty point guard on the 1966—67 basketball team, which won eight games and lost 17.
		Conroy's coach was a sadist, the team stank, and Conroy admits that at least 10 of the 12 men on the team were more talented than he.
	www.bordersstores.com /features/feature.jsp?file=conroy (1144 words)

	Pat Conroy Signature - Fadedgiant Online Author Autograph Guide - Books, Links, Quotes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Conroy is beloved for big, passionate, compulsively readable novels propelled by the emotional jet fuel of an abusive childhood.
		In his most brilliant and powerful novel, Pat Conroy tells the story of Tom Wingo, his twin sister, Savannah, and the dark and violent past of the family into which they were born.
		But Conroy is also a major contemporary American novelist who follows in the tradition of Southern fiction established by William Faulkner and Thomas Wolfe.
	www.fadedgiant.net /html/conroy__pat.htm (1077 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Pat Conroy
		Best-selling author Pat Conroy is well known for using some bitter personal experiences as the basis for his work, which explores the jarring tensions, ironies, and humor of love-hate relationships in the contemporary South.
		Conroy's newest book, My Losing Season (October 2002), is a nonfiction account of Conroy's senior year on the basketball team at the Citadel, the South's famous bastion of military tradition.
		Conroy views his final year of basketball as a turning point that ultimately set him on the road to be a writer.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/conroy_pat.html (515 words)

	Pat Conroy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Pat Conroy, (born October 26, 1945 in Georgia) is a New York Times Bestselling author who has written such acclaimed works as The Lords of Discipline, Beach Music, The Great Santini, The Prince of Tides, The Water is Wide, and The Boo.
		Conroy grew up in a very unhappy family.
		His father, Marine Colonel Donald Conroy was a very violent and abusive man and the pain of his youth is evident in Conroy's novels.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Pat_Conroy.html (145 words)

	Pat Conroy — www.greenwood.com
		Conroy's dysfunctional family is well described in the first chapter...His coming-of-age themes and how his novels fit into the "Southern genre" are extensively discussed in the critical analysis of his work...Burns has done a fine job of delving into the writer's life and works...this is a much-needed resource.
		Each novel is analyzed for plot structure, characterization, thematic elements, and Conroy's increasingly elaborate style and development as a master of the art of the novel.
		Because of Pat Conroy's popularity among adults and teenagers, this first critical work of a major contemporary American writer is a necessary purchase by public and secondary school libraries.
	www.greenwood.com /catalog/GR9419.aspx (359 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Pat Conroy
		Bio: The novelist Pat Conroy's life and personal experience are so inextricably bound up with his writing that, at first glance, it might seem that he is merely retelling the story of his life, again and again.
		To tell his story, Tom Wingo, the scarred but proud hero of Pat Conroy's The Prince of Tides, must go on a journey--a literal, geographical journey to New York from his home on the South Carolina coast that leads to a psychological journey from the present to the past, to a virtual prison of memory.
		Readers know Pat Conroy as a novelist of great reputation and success, but his first notable achievement as a writer was an autobiographical book called The Water is Wide, published in 1972--the story of a year in his life as a teacher of poor African-American children on a coastal island in South Carolina.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/PatConroyeBooks.htm (823 words)

	Pat Conroy - Tate Lecture Series - SMU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Weaving his experiences growing up in the South with an innate ability to create characters and stories rich with depth and intrigue, Pat Conroy has established himself as one of the great American novelists of the last 50 years.
		Born in Atlanta in 1945, Conroy is the son of a career military officer and changed schools 11 times in 12 years while moving with his family to several different bases in the South.
		Conroy exposed the rampant racism, sexism and abuse of authority at The Citadel in his next novel, The Lords of Discipline.
	www.smu.edu /tateseries/speakers/pat-conroy.asp (244 words)

	Pat Conroy Visit
		Pat Conroy spoke to an overflow audience of more than 1100 as he accepted the 2003 Thomas Wolfe Prize in Hill Hall Auditorium on October 7.
		Conroy is an apt recipient for more than his personal ties to Wolfe.
		Conroy's most recent work is My Losing Season, a non-fiction account of his years on the basketball team at the Citadel.
	www.unc.edu /depts/testenglish/SpecialPrograms/wolfe/PatConroy.html (388 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Pat Conroy
		After a year, Pat was fired for his unconventional teaching practices--such as his unwillingness to allow corporal punishment of his students--and for his general lack of respect for the school's administration.
		Pat moved from Atlanta to Rome where he began THE PRINCE OF TIDES, which, when published in 1986, became his most successful book.
		BEACH MUSIC, Conroy's sixth book and his first novel since THE PRINCE OF TIDES, tells the story of Jack McCall, an American who moves to Rome to escape the trauma and painful memory of his young wife's suicidal leap off a bridge in South Carolina.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-conroy-pat.asp (569 words)

	Amazon.com: The Water Is Wide: Books: Pat Conroy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Pat Conroy's teaching experience on an impoverished South Carolina island in 1969 is reminiscent of Eliot Wigginton's situation in Rabun County, Georgia, during the same time period.
		In Conroy's case, the added strains of regional racism and administrative power games were too much to overcome, and he had to leave after serving a little more than a year there.
		Set on a small island off the Carolina shores, where Conroy spent a year teaching a small group of fl children, who were so lost in time that the name of the ocean that surrounds their island was unknown to them.
	www.amazon.com /Water-Is-Wide-Pat-Conroy/dp/0553268937 (1379 words)

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