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Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home – Savannah, GA
POSTPONED – Due to corona virus prevention…
The Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home’s Spring Lecture Series will host Jonathan Haupt, executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center, in conversation with Pat Conroy’s Daufuskie Island student Sallie Ann Robinson and Conroy’s Citadel classmate John Warley. All three are contributing writers to the award-winning anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy, a collection of remembrances by 67 writers who were mentored, inspired, befriended, and championed by the best-selling author of The Water Is Wide, The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides, and more. The Spring Lecture Series is free and open to the public; books will be available for sale and signing following the presentation. Tours of the Home will conclude at 3 p.m. for set up.
New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his 50-year writing life. In sharing their stories of Conroy, his fellow writers honor his memory and advance our shared understanding of his lasting impact on 20th- and 21st-century literary life in and well beyond the American South.
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Praise for “OUR PRINCE OF SCRIBES”
“Our Prince of Scribes isn’t just a collection of homages but also a delightful introduction to Conroy’s vast and talented circle of talented friends.”—Washington Post
“A moving tribute to the legacy of one of the South’s brightest lights.”—Garden & Gun’s Talk of the South
“Pat Conroy’s death in 2016 left a colossal void in the literary landscape, but his spirit survives not only in the legacy of his work but in new books like this collection of funny, bittersweet recollections by those who knew him.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Pat Conroy had a profound impact on the literary world. His work has inspired countless writers, and his generous spirit encouraged many to follow in his footsteps. Their appreciation for his support can be seen in a new collection of essays titled Our Prince of Scribes. Jonathan Haupt, executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center, and novelist Nicole Seitz gathered stories from 67 writers about Conroy and his impact ontheir lives…. [T]he underlying theme is that he never stopped mentoring.”—Hilton Head Monthly
About our Presenters:
Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the former director of the University of South Carolina Press. With 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 & Courier, Beaufort Lowcountry Weekly, Beaufort Lifestyle magazine, Pink magazine, Shrimp, Collards & Grits magazine, Fall Lines, 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.
Chef and cultural historian Sallie Ann Robinson is a sixth generation native of Daufuskie Island and the author of the cookbooks Sallie Ann Robinson’s Kitchen, Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way, and Cooking the Gullah Way, Morning, Noon, and Night. She is coauthor with Jenny Hersch of Daufuskie Island in the Images of America series. Robinson appears as Ethel in Pat Conroy’s memoir The Water Is Wide. She continues to cook, teach, and write in her native lowcountry.
John Warley, a native South Carolinian, is a graduate of The Citadel and the University of Virginia School of Law. Now a full-time writer, he divides his time between Beaufort, South Carolina, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Warley is the author of the novels Bethesda’s Child, The Moralist, The Moralist II, A Southern Girl, and The Home Guard. He is also the author of the nonfiction book Stand Forever, Yielding Never: The Citadel in the 21st Century and The Citadel at War, a narrative history of the college etched into the granite walls of The Citadel War Memorial, which opened to the public in October 2017.
