Our prince of scribes : writers remember Pat Conroy / edited by Nicole Seitz and Jonathan Haupt ; foreword by Barbra Streisand ; afterword by Cassandra King Conroy.

Foreword / by Barbra Streisand -- Preface / by Nicole Seitz -- Introduction / by Jonathan Haupt -- I. Headwaters: the early years as student and teacher. A boy, a girl, and a train / Alexia Jones Helsley -- Best all around / Stephanie Austin Edwards -- Pat Conroy's first novelist and final homecoming / David Lauderdale -- The brutal truth of it, liberated at last / Bernie Schein -- Wearing the ring / Scott Graber -- One cadet's lamentations / John Warley -- Golden / Valerie Sayers -- Pat Conroy, my teacher and my friend / Sallie Ann Robinson -- When Pat Conroy slept on our sofa / Dottie Ashley -- My private Conroy / Josephine Humphreys -- My painting life with Pat Conroy / Wendell Minor -- Being Ben Meecham, loving Pat Conroy / Michael O'Keefe -- A few corrections: some edited memories of Pat / Jonathan Galassi -- II. Flow and floodplains: becoming the best-selling author. The eternal protagonist / Terry Kay -- Raised by a son of Santini / Melissa Conroy -- The endurance of love / Maggie Schein -- Old men and young bucks / Steve Oney -- In walked Conrack / Nikky Finney -- In the Dom Rep with Conrack / Cliff Graubart -- Conroy redux / Anne Rivers Siddons -- A recipe for tall tales / Nathalie Dupree -- An angel to watch over me / Cynthia Graubart -- Pointing at Pat Conroy's house / William Walsh -- What I miss most / Jonathan Carroll -- When Pat Conroy came to stay / Ryder Carroll -- Doing what it takes to keep this dying friendship alive / Mark Childress -- The relationship we never had / Janis Ian -- My hero / Kathy L. Murphy -- Goodnight, sweet prince / Alex Sanders -- Sea Island magic / Lawrence S. Rowland -- A rare kind of generosity / Ashley Warlick -- The great yes / Tim Conroy -- The great Conroy: an homage to a southern literary giant and a prince of a guy / Rick Bragg -- Pat's choice / Connie May Fowler -- To catch a thief / William A. Balk Jr. -- An invitation into his world / Judy Goldman -- Santini's son was more heroic than tragic / Andy Marlette -- Pat Conroy and telephone noir / Teresa Miller -- Farewell to Pat Conroy, whose words made him the sexiest man alive / Kathleen Parker -- III. Tributaries and delta: sustained and sustaining friendships, lasting legacies. Pat Conroy's not-so-secret love affair / Walter Edgar -- A lowcountry love / Mary Alice Monroe -- One day's lesson / John Connor Cleveland -- Knowing Pat through Jack / Jonathan Sanchez -- Free uncontinental breakfast / George Singleton -- To know the author and the man / Sandra Brown -- A name to remember / Nicole Seitz -- He was mine, he was all of ours / Sean A. Scapellato -- The ring of friendship / Lynn Seldon -- Pat's gift / Michael Morris -- Somebody else's luck / Katherine Clark -- A scene with Pat Conroy / Sonny Brewer -- That's so Conroy / Margaret Evans -- Missing Conroy / Ron Rash -- Remembering the storyteller / Teresa K. Weaver -- Coinblaze and starwater in the letters of Pat Conroy / Catherine Seltzer -- A circle lit in holy light / Bren McClain -- Great love and a poet's heart / Marjory Wentworth -- Sublimely Conroy / Patti Callahan Henry -- Catering the funeral of Beaufort's favorite eulogist / Debbi Covington -- Riding the literary thermals with Pat Conroy / John Lane -- The world is wider than the water it holds / Anthony Grooms -- On the wings of the incoming tide / Ellen Malphrus -- The extended hand / Mark Powell -- He kept his word for the sake of ours / Mary Hood -- Afterword: shared blessings, shared sorrows / by Cassandra King Conroy.

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