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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…

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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…

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Pat Conroy for Gourmet Magazine

August 2006 On Paris, writing, food and friendship In the last days I would ever feel like a young man, I went to live in Paris to finish the novel…

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The Citadel Commencement Speech – “I wear the ring”

May 12, 2001 General Grinalds; the Board of Visitors; Lt. Col. Thomas Nugent Courvoisie, the Boo, and my first book; Greg and Mary Wilson Smith, The Citadel family who did…

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Pat Conroy talks about the South, his mother, and The Prince of Tides

(Taken from a speech delivered at the annual American Booksellers Association convention in 1985) My mother, southern to the bone, once told me, “All southern literature can be summed up…

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Pat Conroy for PARADE Food Issue

Red hots vs. chili cheese dogs at The Varsity in Atlanta When I was growing up and lived at my grandmother’s house in Atlanta, my mother would take her children…

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