![]() ![]() These four best selling authors stepped up to the microphone to raise money for one of the most recognizable voices in audiobooks, Frank Muller, an actor who sustained terrible injuries from a motorcycle accident. On February 2, 2002, Stephen King, Pat Conroy, John Grisham, and Peter Straub gathered at New York's Town Hall for a very special evening. Scott Fitzgerald Award, Conroy’s books that have been adapted into films include: The Water Is Wide, The Prince of Tides, The Lords of Discipline, The Great Santini, and The Water Is Wide (Conrack). ![]() Upon graduating, Conroy had a number of teaching jobs, including one at an underprivileged schoolhouse, with his personal experiences inspiring his memoirs.Ī recipient of several awards such as the 1993 American Academy of Achievement, Golden Plate Award, and the 2005 F. Thomas Nugent Courvoisie, who was a great mentor at the facility. In fact, it inspired him greatly, as his debut book The Boo (1970), is a tribute to Lt. Pat Conroy was a renowned American award-winning author of literary fiction and non-fiction books.īorn in Atlanta, Conroy grew up in several military bases throughout the South due to the fact that his father was a Marine officer.Īlthough he attended The Citadel military college, quite the unorthodox place for an aspiring writer, that never deterred his dream. ![]()
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