![]() ![]() He is reknown for his lyrical style of writing and for storytelling in a way that is very captivating. He passed away in 2016 as the result of pancreatic cancer. He then continued writing as a career and has written a number of novels which made it to the big screen. He wrote about his experiences that year in a memoir called The Water is Wide, which became a major motion picture. He was let go from this teaching position after one year because of what the school system characterized as unconventional teaching methods and his refusal to allow corporal punishment of his students. In 1969, he took a job teaching underprivileged kids in a one-room school house on Daufuskie Island near Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. ![]() After attending the Citadel in Charleston, he taught high school English and Pyschology in Beaufort, SC. Marine Corps officer and lived on a number of military bases throughout the South. Pat Conroy grew up as one of seven children of a U.S. The setting is the area of Charleston known as South of Broad-the area with all the aristocratic mansions for which Charleston is famous. The focus of the novel is following ten young people entering their senior year of high school and growing into adulthood during the mid-1970’s and 1980’s. This novel takes us on an intense inside look at one of the great Southern cities, Charleston, SC. ![]() This is one of several great novels written by Pat Conroy, who writes with great passion about the South. ![]()
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