How Pat Conroy made Beaufort a destination

Pat Conroy, the beloved author of "The Great Santini," "The Prince of Tides," and other best-sellers who drew upon his bruising childhood and the vistas of South Carolina and became one of the country's most compelling and popular storytellers, died

Quotes from Pat Conroy's works. '(F)lush the great blue heron from its silent occupation'. 'Live oak trees, festooned with cool scarves of Spanish Moss, and gnarled by a century of storms, loomed over the street.' “(T)he best thing about a small town

“Pat, this is the writing room where my ancestor William Gilmore Simms did most of his work,” Albert said, then he added, “The last writer to be in this room that we know of occurred in 1839 when Edgar Allan Poe visited my great-grandfather when he

Beaufort Regional Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Blakely Williams can attribute a significant amount of that to just one name: Pat Conroy. “He has been a tremendous ambassador for Beaufort County for years and the impact he has had on our 

Tributes are flooding social media following news that beloved, iconic author Pat Conroy has died, none more heartfelt than one from Mina Truong. A year before he died, Conroy and Mina opened a health fitness studio together in Port Royal, S.C. The