Married, best-selling South Carolina authors Cassandra King and the late Pat Conroy are shown at their home in Beaufort. Rob McDonald Pat Conroy Literary Center Pat Conroy would have been 80 this ...

As he lay dying, Pat Conroy's family eased him from this life into the next by reading poems, playing country music and singing to him. "We did sing the Marine Corps Hymn," his sister Kathy Harvey ...

Pat Conroy, who turned tales of his painfully dysfunctional family into best-selling novels such as "The Great Santini" and "The Prince of Tides," died Friday at the age of 70, his publishing company ...

FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2000 file photo, author Pat Conroy receives an honorary doctor of letters degree during a ceremony on the parade grounds of The Citadel, in Charleston, S.C. Presenting the ...

Pat Conroy, the best-selling novelist and proud adoptive son of the Lowcountry who wrote lyrically about Charleston and unflinchingly about The Citadel, died Friday. He was 70.

TELL ME A STORY: My Life With Pat Conroy. By Cassandra King Conroy. William Morrow. 400 pages. $24.99. Picking up “Tell Me a Story,” Cassandra King Conroy’s memoir of her life with Pat Conroy, we know ...