![]() ![]() Pat said she helped him develop his writing style, and every time he published a new book, he took a rose to her headstone in Beaufort's St. ![]() ![]() While attending Beaufort High, he took a creative writing course taught by novelist Ann Morse (who wrote under the name of Ann Head). He said the city embraced him into her history: “She was proud to have me call her my hometown.” Pat also paid tribute to locals who helped him along the way. In The Great Santini, he wrote, “I’ve come home to the place I was always writing about…I’ve tried to make Beaufort, South Carolina, my own.” He most certainly accomplished that. He and his wife, novelist Cassandra King, lived on Fripp Island and in Beaufort, and Cassandra still calls Beaufort home.Īs the son of a Marine Corps fighter pilot (who he depicts in The Great Santini), Conroy had more than 20 addresses before moving to Beaufort in the 1960s (another move for his father's job), as he began high school. He said it was the first place he could really call “home,” and it was his anchor for decades. Quite simply, beloved Pat Conroy - author of bestselling books like The Prince of Tides, South of Broad, The Water is Wide, and more - loved everything about Beaufort and the Lowcountry. ![]()
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