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Novelist Pat Conroy bares real-life youthful struggles in new memoir -- John Habich - Star Tribune -- Published Oct 20, 2002 -- FRIPP ISLAND, S.C. -- People already know parts of Pat Conroy's story. The strict father who beat him without provocation, darkly memorialized as "The Great Santini." The military college where he was terrorized by upperclassmen under the impassive watch of career soldiers, made famous in "The Lords of Discipline." Conroy
has always drawn from the poisoned well of his own life to create his bestselling novels...
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Conroy’s Literary Slam-Dunk -- A writer revisits life as a jock, and as a tortured son -- By Malcolm Jones -- NEWSWEEK -- Oct. 14 issue -- Showing off the Citadel recently, Pat Conroy kept circling his alma mater, looking up at the looming water tower from different angles. “Somebody put my name up there and then painted one of those circles with a slash over it,” he said. “I just wanted to see if it was still up there.” CONROY RAN AFOUL of the Charleston, S.C., military college in the late ’90s when he supported the admission of female cadets. The rift has since been smoothed over so successfully that ex-cadet Conroy
was asked to give the 2001 commencement address, and he revels in the fact...
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When life was a battle for honor and dignity; My Losing Season, by Pat Conroy --The Los Angeles Times; Los Angeles, CA -- Oct 13, 2002 --At the beginning of his senior year at the Citadel, a basketball player with literary aspirations climbed aboard the bow of a yacht docked in the campus marina. As he surveyed the school from his lofty vantage point, the young man, fresh from an encouraging visit with his favorite English professor, made a solemn promise to "remember everything."...
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How he got game - Pat Conroy writes movingly of fear, rejection, renewal and basketball -- 10/13/02 -- By William Gibson -- New Orleans, Times-Picayune -- In his book "The Courage to Write," Ralph Keyes repeatedly uses Pat Conroy as an example of someone who had to overcome fear and rejection in the process of writing and publishing his novels. Keyes holds up Conroy for good reason. His first novel, "The Lords of Discipline," resulted in a decades-long estrangement from his alma mater, the Citadel...
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Pat Conroy: 'MY LOSING SEASON' -- Oct 11, 2002 -- By FRITZ LANHAM, Houston Chronicle Book Editor -- The experiences of a single year more than three decades ago marked Pat Conroy for life. It was the year the future author of such best-selling novels as Beach Music and The Prince of Tides decided he wanted to be a writer. It was also the year -- 1966-67 -- he played point guard for the basketball team at the Citadel, the all-male military college in Charleston, S.C., that he fictionalized so vividly, and controversially, in his novel The Lords of Discipline.
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A Winning Career, Publishers Weekly By Tracy Cochran -- 9/30/2002 -- On a bright August day, Pat Conroy sits at an outdoor table at Jean Paul's Bistro in the harbor village of Blue Hill, Maine, talking about the "woe." As in the Civil Woe. Adopting a thick drawl, he imitates his mother explaining what happened to her aristocratic family. "Oh son, they lost it during the woe," wails Conroy, narrowing his eyes in mock...
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