Pat Conroy





Pat Conroy

Author profile


born
in Atlanta, Georgia, The United States
October 26, 1945

website

genre


About this author

Pat Conroy is the New York Times bestselling author of two memoirs and seven novels, including The Prince of Tides, The Great Santini, and The Lords of Discipline. Born the eldest of seven children in a rigidly disciplined military household, he attended the Citadel, the military college of South Carolina. He briefly became a schoolteacher (which he chronicled in his memoir The Water Is Wide) before publishing his first novel, The Boo. Conroy lives on Fripp Island, South Carolina.


Average rating: 4.05 · 157,455 ratings · 10,291 reviews · 21 distinct works · Similar authors
The Prince of Tides
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 79,163 ratings — published 1986 — 60 editions
Beach Music
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 19,247 ratings — published 1995 — 34 editions
South of Broad
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 19,458 ratings — published 2009 — 23 editions
The Great Santini
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 11,380 ratings — published 1976 — 39 editions
The Lords of Discipline
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 11,022 ratings — published 1980 — 48 editions
The Water Is Wide: A Memoir
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 7,409 ratings — published 1969 — 41 editions
My Losing Season: A Memoir
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 4,220 ratings — published 2002 — 26 editions
My Reading Life
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 2,448 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions
The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Re...
by
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 694 ratings — published 2004 — 9 editions
The Boo
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 683 ratings — published 1970 — 13 editions
More books by Pat Conroy…

Upcoming Events

No scheduled events. Add an event.

“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.”
Pat Conroy, Beach Music

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.”
Pat Conroy

Polls

Which Southern writer would you like to sit out on the porch with some sweet tea and shoot the breeze with?

 
  1 vote 20.0%

 
  1 vote 20.0%

 
  1 vote 20.0%

Clyde Edgerton (write-in)
 
  1 vote 20.0%

William Gay (write-in)
 
  1 vote 20.0%

5 total votes
1 comment
More...

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics posts views last activity  
The Seasonal Read...: By Blood or Marriage (25.2) 41 249 Aug 24, 2009 02:23pm  
The Next Best Boo...: Favourite Authors from your native country 45 359 Sep 20, 2009 10:54am  
The Book Addicts!: Need suggestions for one of my goals 45 107 Nov 21, 2009 03:15pm  
The Seasonal Read...: FALL CHALLENGE 2009 COMPLETED TASKS 4045 2571 Nov 30, 2009 09:01pm  


Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Pat to Goodreads.