Pat Conroy

Pat Conroy was born in Atlanta, Georgia on October 26, 1945.
* He was the eldest of seven children.
* His father was a Marine Corps fighter pilot, and his mother was a homemaker.
* The family moved often, and Conroy attended 11 schools by the time he was 15.
* He graduated from Beaufort High School in 1963.
* He attended The Citadel, a military college in Charleston, South Carolina, but he dropped out after two years.
* He began writing short stories and novels, and his first novel, The Water Is Wide, was published in 1972.
* He went on to write several more novels, including The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides, and The Great Santini.
* Conroy died on March 4, 2016, at the age of 69.