Our Prince of Scribes
Writers Remember Pat Conroy
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Pages: 320
Illustrations: 26 b&w images
Trim size: 6.000in x 9.000in
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Pub Date: 09/15/2019
ISBN: 9-780-8203-5685-3
List Price: $25.95
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Pub Date: 09/15/2018
ISBN: 9-780-8203-5449-1
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Published with the generous support of Georgia Writers Hall of Fame
Our Prince of Scribes
Writers Remember Pat Conroy
An illuminating collection of essays honoring the literary legacy of Pat Conroy
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New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In sharing their stories of Conroy, his fellow writers honor his memory and advance our shared understanding of his lasting impact on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary life in and well beyond the American South.
Conroy’s was a messy fellowship of people from all walks of life. His relationships were complicated, and people and places he thought he’d left behind often circled back to him at crucial moments. The pantheon of contributors includes Pulitzer Prize winners Rick Bragg and Kathleen Parker; Grammy winners Barbra Streisand and Janis Ian; Lillian Smith Award winners Anthony Grooms and Mary Hood; National Book Award winner Nikky Finney; James Beard Foundation Award winners Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart; a corps of New York Times best-selling authors, including Ron Rash, Sandra Brown, and Mary Alice Monroe; Conroy biographers Katherine Clark and Catherine Seltzer; longtime Conroy friends Bernie Schein, Cliff Graubart, John Warley, and Walter Edgar; Pat’s students Sallie Ann Robinson and Valerie Sayers; members of the Conroy family; and many more.
Each author in this collection shares a slightly different view of Conroy. Through their voices, a vibrant, multifaceted portrait of him comes to life and sheds new light on the writer and the man. Loosely following Conroy’s own chronology, the essays in Our Prince of Scribes wind through his river of a story, stopping at important ports of call. Cities he called home and longed to visit, along with each book he birthed, become characters that are as equally important as the people he touched and loved along the way.
—Barbra Streisand, from the foreword to Our Prince of Scribes
—Rick Bragg, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin', Ava's Man, and The Prince of Frogtown.
—Ann Patchett, New York Times best-selling author of Bel Canto and Commonwealth
—Dannye Romine Powell, author and book editor for the Charlotte Observer
—Kirkus Reviews
—Danny Heitman, The Wall Street Journal
Commended
NYC Big Book Award (Distinguished Favorite)
Winner
Best Anthology, Independent Press Awards
Winner
Best Independent Book, Best Indie Book Award
Winner
Best Achievement Award, Pinnacle Book
Winner
Official Selection, Pulpwood Queens Book Club
Short-listed
Best Regional Nonfiction
Winner
Okra Pick, Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance
Winner
International Book Award (Anthology), American Book Fest
Runner-up
IPPY Awards, Independent Publisher Magazine
Dottie Ashley
William A. Balk
Rick Bragg
Sonny Brewer
Sandra Brown
Jonathan Carroll
Ryder Carroll
Mark Childress
Katherine Clark
John Connor Cleveland
Melissa Conroy
Tim Conroy
Debbi Covington
Nathalie Dupree
Walter Edgar
Stephanie Austin Edwards
Margaret Evans
Nikky Finney
Connie May Fowler
Jonathan Galassi
Judy Goldman
Scott Graber
Cliff Graubart
Cynthia Graubart
Anthony Grooms
Alexia Helsley
Patti Callahan Henry
Mary Hood
Josephine Humphreys
Janis Ian
Terry Kay
John Lane
David Lauderdale
Ellen Malphrus
Andy Marlette
Bren McClain
Teresa Miller
Wendell Minor
Mary Monroe
Michael Morris
Kathy L. Murphy
Michael O’Keefe
Steve Oney
Kathleen Parker
Mark Powell
Ron Rash
Sallie Ann Robinson
Lawrence S. Rowland
Jonathan Sanchez
Alex Sanders
Valerie Sayers
Sean Scapellato
Bernie Schein
Maggie Schein
Nicole Seitz
Lynn Seldon
Catherine Seltzer
Anne Rivers Siddons
George Singleton
William Walsh
John Warley
Ashley Warlick
Teresa K. Weaver
Marjory Wentworth
