South of Broad was, at the time of its launch in August 2009, one of the most controversial novels Pat Conroy ever wrote. Reviewers everywhere were split on its literary value but Kirkus Reviews managed to make sense of the many parallel running plots: “First novel in 14 years from the gifted …
A Letter to the Editor of the Charleston Gazette
October 24, 2007 - on teachers, censorship, and banned books. I received an urgent e-mail from a high school student named Makenzie Hatfield of Charleston, West Virginia. She informed me of a group of parents who were attempting to suppress the teaching of two of my novels, The Prince of Tides and …
Eulogy for Doug Marlette
July 14, 2007 Dedicated to the Thirteen Danish Cartoonists I first met my charismatic, untamable and fire-eating friend Doug Marlette on a beautiful day in Charlotte, North Carolina, where I had come to sign copies of my first novel The Great Santini. In Belks' Department Store, where I had …