Format:
xiv, 285 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9780820354484
Content:
New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In sharing their stories of Conroy, his fellow writers honor his memory and advance our shared understanding of his lasting impact on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary life in and well beyond the American South. Conroy’s was a messy fellowship of people from all walks of life. His relationships were complicated, and people and places he thought he’d left behind often circled back to him at crucial moments. The pantheon of contributors includes Pulitzer Prize winners Rick Bragg and Kathleen Parker; Grammy winners Barbra Streisand and Janis Ian; Lillian Smith Award winners Anthony Grooms and Mary Hood; National Book Award winner Nikky Finney; James Beard Foundation Award winners Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart; a corps of New York Times best-selling authors, including Ron Rash, Sandra Brown, and Mary Alice Monroe; Conroy biographers Katherine Clark and Catherine Seltzer; longtime Conroy friends Bernie Schein, Cliff Graubart, John Warley, and Walter Edgar; Pat’s students Sallie Ann Robinson and Valerie Sayers; members of the Conroy family; and many more. Each author in this collection shares a slightly different view of Conroy. Through their voices, a vibrant, multifaceted portrait of him comes to life and sheds new light on the writer and the man. Loosely following Conroy’s own chronology, the essays in Our Prince of Scribes wind through his river of a story, stopping at important ports of call. Cities he called home and longed to visit, along with each book he birthed, become characters that are as equally important as the people he touched and loved along the way.
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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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Shared blessings, shared sorrows / Cassandra King Conroy
Language:
English
Keywords:
Conroy, Pat 1945-2016
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Festschrift
Author information:
Streisand, Barbra 1942-
