A lowcountry heart
Subtitle: reflections on a writing life
By: Pat Conroy
Edition: First large print edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9781524735760
Subjects: American Authors; Biography
Description: A collection of letters, interviews, and magazine articles spanning Conroy's long literary career is supplemented by pieces from the authors many friends.
Table of contents: title: A note to the reader  -- Nan A. Talese; title: Introduction  -- Cassandra King; title: Hey, out there.; title: The first letter: an opening to the light ;; title: Surprises on the road ;; title: The fire sermon: speech by Pat Conroy, delivered at Penn Center ;; title: On the future of books ;; title: My spooky life ;; title: My blogging life ;; title: The Boo's lambs gather in Charleston ;; title: Hitch 22: a great memoir ;; title: the night the band played the "Tennessee Waltz" ;; title: The man who inspired my Losing Season left us too soon... ;; title: A room of her own...and the birth of Moonrise ;; title: On the road again...airports, editors, publicists, and my writing life ;; title: A long-lasting friendship: Charlie Gibson of Good Morning America ;; title: Vietnam still haunting me... ;; title: The teachers of my life ;; title: Barbara Warley was loved by everyone ;; title: How George R.R. Martin made me love dire wolves, giants, dwarves, and dragons... ;; title: A eulogy for a Southern gentleman ;; title: Remembering an irreplaceable friend ;; title: The best night in the life of this aging Citadel point guard... ;; title: The summer I met my first great man ;; title: Andie MacDowell at the Beaufort Film Festival ;; title: Mina & Conroy Fitness Studio ;; title: A few things I wish I had told Ann Patchett... ;; title: Conroy at seventy--happy birthday to me ;; title: On Pat Conroy's Facebook page on the day of his passing --; title: The great Conroy. A conversation with Pat Conroy ;; title: A letter to my grandson on sportsmanship and basketball ;; title: Pat Conroy talks about the /south, his mother, and The Prince of Tides ;; title: Pat Conroy speaks to Meredith Maran ;; title: On my Paris days ;; title: A letter to the editor of the Charleston Gazette ;; title: A lowcountry heart ;; title: Pat Conroy's Citadel speech ;; title: Farewell letter  -- Bernie Schein ;; title: The great Conroy: an homage to a southern literary giant and a prince of a guy,  -- Rick Bragg ;; title: Eulogy  -- delivered by Judge Alex Sanders ;; title: Acknowledgments -- Cassandra King.