Knicely Conference Center – Bowling Green, KY

“Writers of the world, if you’ve got a story, I want to hear it. I promise it will follow me to my last breath.”—Pat Conroy

Although beloved bestselling writer Pat Conroy (1945-2016) served as a classroom educator for little more than three years, he remained a teacher and mentor to his fellow writers throughout his lifetime. See Conroy in action as a teacher through representative remembrances of him excerpted from essays by the 67 contributors to the award-winning anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy, presented by co-editor and Pat Conroy Literary Center executive director Jonathan Haupt.

Free and open to the public, this program will be held as part of the Southern Kentucky Book Festival on Saturday, March 21, 1:00-1:50 p.m. at the Knicely Conference Center (2355 Nashville Rd., Bowling Green, KY). Jonathan Haupt will also be on hand to autograph copies of Our Prince of Scribes through the day. For a complete schedule and author lineup, please visit the festival’s website at https://sokybookfest.org

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About our presenter:

Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center, the founding director of the annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival, and the former director of the University of South Carolina Press. With novelist and artist Nicole Seitz, he is co-editor of the award-winning anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy, Haupt’s articles, book reviews, and author interviews have appeared in the Charleston Post and Courier, Beaufort Lowcountry Weekly, Beaufort Lifestyle magazine, Pink magazine, Shrimp, Collards & Grits magazine, Fall Lines, Southern Writers magazine’s Suite T blog, and the Conroy Center’s Porch Talk blog. He serves as an associate producer and consultant to the SCETV author interview program By the River, on the board of directors of the South Carolina Academy of Authors and the Friends of South Carolina Libraries, on the American Writers Museum affiliates steering committee, and on the South Carolina Humanities advisory committee.

This program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which, as always, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.