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A new book lists 100 things to do in the South Carolina Lowcountry before you die. Columnist David Lauderdale introduces you ...

“I am a patriot of a singular geography on the planet; I speak of my country religiously; I am proud of its landscape. I walk through the traffic of cities ...

The first 12 pages of this book – the prologue detailing the war of physical and psychological abuse that Don Conroy waged on his family – are absolutely scary. Not Stephen King or Hannibal Lecter ...

Pat Conroy spent a couple of days in Tulsa telling stories. Some that were completely true, some that were mildly or grandly embellished, some that were pure fabrication, some that were all these ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - After bad health habits nearly killed him, "The Prince of Tides" author Pat Conroy said he is opening a fitness studio near his South Carolina home to help him stay ...

Pat Conroy, who turned tales of his painfully dysfunctional family into best-selling novels such as "The Great Santini" and "The Prince of Tides," died Friday at the age of 70, his publishing company ...

Pat Conroy, the beloved author of "The Great Santini" and "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 ...