Pat Conroy (1945–2016)
Autor/a de The Prince of Tides
Sobre l'autor
Pat Conroy is the pen name of Donald Patrick Conroy, who was born in Atlanta, Georgia on October 26, 1945. He received a B.A. in English from The Citadel in 1967. After teaching high school at his alma mater, he accepted a job teaching disadvantaged black children in a two-room schoolhouse on mostra'n més Daufuskie Island off the South Carolina coast. Many of the children were illiterate, unable even to write their own names. He taught them using oral history and geography lessons. His experience on Daufuskie Island formed the basis for his first successful memoir, The Water Is Wide, which won the Anisfield-Wolf Award from the Cleveland Foundation and was made into the movie Conrack starring Jon Voight in 1976. His novels include Beach Music and South of Broad. Several of his novels were adapted into movies including The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides. He also wrote several works of non-fiction including The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes and Stories of My Life, My Reading Life, and The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son. He died of pancreatic cancer on March 4, 2016 at the age of 70. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Obres de Pat Conroy
The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection (2016) 17 exemplars
The World of Pat Conroy: The Great Santini/the Lords of Discipline/the Prince of Tides/the Water Is Wide (1991) 4 exemplars
Black Hills 1 exemplars
Gone with the wind, 75th anniversary edition — Introducció — 1 exemplars
1994 1 exemplars
Prince of tides : screenplay 1 exemplars
Savannah/The Prince of Tides: A Novel 1 exemplars
Star Trap 1 exemplars
Pat Conroy, novelist 1 exemplars
Canção do Mar 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Southern Living Comfort Food: A Delicious Trip Down Memory Lane (Southern Living (Hardcover Oxmoor)) (2009) — Pròleg — 73 exemplars
Don't Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Day Jobs They Quit (2010) — Col·laborador — 41 exemplars
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Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Conroy, Donald Patrick
- Data de naixement
- 1945-10-26
- Data de defunció
- 2016-03-04
- Lloc d'enterrament
- St. Helena Memorial Gardens, Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
- Causa de la mort
- pancreatic cancer
- Llocs de residència
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Orlando, Florida, USA
Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
Fripp Island, South Carolina, USA - Educació
- The Citadel (BA|1967 ∙ English)
- Professions
- teacher (English ∙ psychology)
novelist
editor - Relacions
- King, Cassandra (wife)
- Premis i honors
- Honorary Doctorate (2000)
F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction (2005)
Georgia Writers Hall of Fame (2005) - Biografia breu
- Donald Patrick "Pat" Conroy was an American author who wrote several acclaimed novels and memoirs; his books The Water is Wide, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini were made into films, the latter two being Oscar nominated. He is recognized as a leading figure of late-20th century Southern literature.
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Pat Conroy on his reading a Other People's Libraries (febrer 2017)
Pat Conroy a Legacy Libraries (febrer 2017)
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Southern Fiction (5)
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 42
- També de
- 11
- Membres
- 21,734
- Popularitat
- #990
- Valoració
- 4.1
- Ressenyes
- 613
- ISBN
- 420
- Llengües
- 19
- Preferit
- 119