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Charleston County, SC – Public Library
“A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.”—Pat Conroy, My Reading Life
In partnership with the Charleston County Public Library, Pat Conroy Literary Center executive director Jonathan Haupt will discuss best-selling author Pat Conroy’s lifelong love of books and libraries—focusing on the roles public libraries, the academic libraries of Beaufort High School and The Citadel, and Pat’s own personal library played in his writing life. The program will also include a discussion of how Pat’s last act as a teacher, his choice of burial site, is also connected to a library, and how the nonprofit Conroy Center honors and continues his legacy as reader, writer, and educator in and beyond his beloved lowcountry. Augmented with photographs as well as published and unpublished writings by and about Conroy, this online presentation welcomes attendees into the book-filled world of one of America’s most beloved writers.
“Libraries made Pat Conroy possible, and they continue to foster the imaginations of the many readers, writers, teachers, and students who enter the realm of stories and resources our libraries make available to us every day.”—Jonathan Haupt in the Savannah Morning News’ Beacon
This virtual event will be held on Zoom. Register in advance at https://bit.ly/3gGZIKM The CCPL staff member hosting the program will confirm your registration one hour to 30 minutes prior to the start of the program. At this time you will receive an email containing the meeting link. If you have any questions about this program, please contact Karli Gallagher at gallagherk@ccpl.org
Website: Facebook Event Page
About our Presenter:
Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center and the former director of the University of South Carolina Press, where he created the Story River Books fiction imprint with Pat Conroy, named by Garden & Gun magazine as one of “the top ten things to love about the South.” Jonathan’s book reviews and author interviews have appeared in the Charleston Post and Courier, Beaufort Lowcountry Weekly, Beaufort Lifestyle magazine, Savannah Morning News’ Beacon magazine, the Southern Review of Books, and Southern Writers Magazine’s Suite T blog. He is co-editor with Nicole Seitz of the anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy, the recipient of more than a dozen book awards. He is also host of Live from the Pat Conroy Literary Center, a monthly author interview podcast on the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network, and associate producer of the TELLY Award-winning SCETV author interview program By the River.
Jonathan serves on the boards of the South Carolina Academy of Authors and the Friends of South Carolina Libraries and on the advisory board of the South Carolina Humanities and the affiliates committee of the American Writers Museum. Under Jonathan’s leadership, the Conroy Center has been honored as South Carolina’s first affiliate of the American Writers Museum, second American Library Association Literary Landmark, and winner of Beaufort’s 2019 Civitas Award for Tourism Leadership. Earlier this year, Jonathan was recognized with the Doug Marlette Literacy Leadership Award presented by the Pulpwood Queens, the largest book club in the U.S.
