[DOC] [TLE] Pat Conroy - Wikipedia [PAR] Donald Patrick "Pat" Conroy (October 26, 1945  March 4, 2016) was an 
American author who wrote several acclaimed novels and memoirs. Two of his 
novels, The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, were made ... In 1976, Conroy 
published his first novel, The Great Santini. The main character of the novel is 
Marine... [DOC] [TLE] Pat Conroy, Author of 'The Prince of Tides' and 'The Great Santini ... [PAR] Mar 5, 2016 ... Pat Conroy, who used his tortured family life and the scenic marshlands of coastal South Carolina as unending sources of inspiration for his fiction, notably the novels The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline and The Prince of Tides, died on Friday. He was 70. [DOC] [TLE] Books by Pat Conroy | My Reading Life [PAR] When I was thirty years old, my novel The Great Santini was published, and ... 
memoir, the beloved bestselling author of The Prince of Tides and his father, ... 
Pat's great success as a writer has always been intimately linked with his family 
life. [DOC] [TLE] 'Prince Of Tides' Author Pat Conroy Dies At 70 : The Two-Way : NPR [PAR] Mar 5, 2016 ... 'Prince Of Tides' Author Pat Conroy Dies At 70. Pat Conroy, author of best-selling novels including The Great Santini and The Prince of Tides, died Friday of pancreatic cancer. He had revealed the diagnosis  and vowed to fight it  just weeks ago. [DOC] [TLE] Pat Conroy dies at 70; 'Great Santini,' Prince of Tides' author - LA ... [PAR] Mar 4, 2016 ... The beloved author of "The Great Santini" and "The Prince of Tides" died ... An 
openly personal writer, he candidly and expansively shared... [DOC] [TLE] Pat Conroy - Author, Journalist, Educator - Biography.com [PAR] Mar 5, 2016 ... One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy 
family. ... particularly his novel The Great Santini, which describes his father ... He 
is best known for his work The Prince of Tides, which was made... [DOC] [TLE] Pat Conroy, Author of 'The Prince of Tides,' 'The Great Santini,' Dies ... [PAR] Mar 4, 2016 ... Pat Conroy, Author of 'The Prince of Tides,' 'The Great Santini,' Dies at ... island 
off the South Carolina coast, and based one of his first books,... [DOC] [TLE] Pat Conroy, best-selling author of 'Great Santini' and 'Prince of Tides ... [PAR] Mar 4, 2016 ... One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer, Pat Conroy once ... as The 
Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides and... [DOC] [TLE] Pat Conroy, Author Of 'Prince Of Tides', Dead At 70 | Huffington Post [PAR] Mar 5, 2016 ... (Reuters) - Pat Conroy, who turned tales of his painfully dysfunctional family into 
best-selling novels such as The Great Santini and The... [DOC] [TLE] Pat Conroy, bestselling US author of the Prince of Tides, dies aged 70 [PAR] Mar 5, 2016 ... Pat Conroy, the author of the Prince of Tides and other bestsellers, who ... life 
readers and moviegoers would learn well from The Great Santini as a novel ... 
But Conroy focused on the advice he once got from the finest writer I... [DOC] [TLE] Author Pat Conroy, writer of 'Prince of Tides', 'The Great Santini', dies ... [PAR] Mar 4, 2016 ... Pat Conroy, who arrived in Beaufort as a teenage Marine brat and found both a 
home and palette for his best-selling novels, died March 4,... [DOC] [TLE] Pat Conroy, author of 'The Prince of Tides,' dies at 70 - CNN.com [PAR] Mar 5, 2016 ... Pat Conroy, author of "The Prince of Tides" and "The Great Santini," has died. [DOC] [TLE] 'Prince Of Tides' & 'The Great Santini' Author Pat Conroy Dies At 70 ...

Question: "The Great Santini" was the first novel by this "Prince of Tides" author
Answer: Pat Conroy