Pat Conroy (1945–2016)
Auteur de Le prince des marées
A propos de l'auteur
Pat Conroy is the pen name of Donald Patrick Conroy, who was born in Atlanta, Georgia on October 26, 1945. He received a B.A. in English from The Citadel in 1967. After teaching high school at his alma mater, he accepted a job teaching disadvantaged black children in a two-room schoolhouse on afficher plus Daufuskie Island off the South Carolina coast. Many of the children were illiterate, unable even to write their own names. He taught them using oral history and geography lessons. His experience on Daufuskie Island formed the basis for his first successful memoir, The Water Is Wide, which won the Anisfield-Wolf Award from the Cleveland Foundation and was made into the movie Conrack starring Jon Voight in 1976. His novels include Beach Music and South of Broad. Several of his novels were adapted into movies including The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides. He also wrote several works of non-fiction including The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes and Stories of My Life, My Reading Life, and The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son. He died of pancreatic cancer on March 4, 2016 at the age of 70. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Pat Conroy
The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection (2016) 17 exemplaires
The World of Pat Conroy: The Great Santini/the Lords of Discipline/the Prince of Tides/the Water Is Wide (1991) 4 exemplaires
Black Hills 1 exemplaire
Gone with the wind, 75th anniversary edition — Introduction — 1 exemplaire
1994 1 exemplaire
Prince of tides : screenplay 1 exemplaire
Savannah/The Prince of Tides: A Novel 1 exemplaire
Star Trap 1 exemplaire
South of Broad & Beach Music by Pat Conroy (2 Books) 1 exemplaire
Pat Conroy, novelist 1 exemplaire
Canção do Mar 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Southern Living Comfort Food: A Delicious Trip Down Memory Lane (Southern Living (Hardcover Oxmoor)) (2009) — Avant-propos — 75 exemplaires
Don't Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Day Jobs They Quit (2010) — Contributeur — 41 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Conroy, Donald Patrick
- Date de naissance
- 1945-10-26
- Date de décès
- 2016-03-04
- Lieu de sépulture
- St. Helena Memorial Gardens, Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Etats-Unis
- Lieu de naissance
- Atlanta, Georgie, Etats-Unis
- Lieu du décès
- Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
- Cause du décès
- pancreatic cancer
- Lieux de résidence
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Orlando, Florida, USA
Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
Fripp Island, South Carolina, USA - Études
- The Citadel (BA|1967 ∙ English)
- Professions
- teacher (English ∙ psychology)
novelist
editor - Relations
- King, Cassandra (wife)
- Prix et distinctions
- Honorary Doctorate (2000)
F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction (2005)
Georgia Writers Hall of Fame (2005) - Courte biographie
- Donald Patrick "Pat" Conroy was an American author who wrote several acclaimed novels and memoirs; his books The Water is Wide, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini were made into films, the latter two being Oscar nominated. He is recognized as a leading figure of late-20th century Southern literature.
Membres
Discussions
Pat Conroy on his reading à Other People's Libraries (Février 2017)
Pat Conroy à Legacy Libraries (Février 2017)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 42
- Aussi par
- 11
- Membres
- 21,831
- Popularité
- #984
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 613
- ISBN
- 420
- Langues
- 19
- Favoris
- 120
C'est à la source des grands Sudistes - Faulkner, entre autres - que s'abreuve Pat Conroy depuis le fabuleux Prince des marées. Avec Charleston Sud, nous débarquons dans ce port de la Caroline du Sud où les tempêtes qui secouent les âmes se mêlent aux cataclysmes qui dévastent les paysages - l'ouragan Hugo, par exemple, dont Pat conroy fait une description digne de Guernica. Leo, son narrateur, a vécu une enfance paisible jusqu'à ce jour maudit de juin 1969 où il a retrouvé son frère au fond de la baignoire, gorge et veines tranchées. Nous découvrirons à la fin du roman la cause sordide de ce suicide, après que Leo aura fait le récit de sa vie - son adolescence douloureuse à cause de la mort de son frère, son mariage calamiteux, son métier de journaliste et ses multiples tourments de "funambule perché au-dessus de l'abîme"... Une chronique familiale à couper le souffle, où Conroy débusque tous les démons du Deep South, une terre qui se calcine sous un soleil noir.
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