Cassandra King Conroy - Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy

Cassandra King Conroy - Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy

Wednesday, Oct 30, 2019 7:00 PM

Location:
Jimmy Carter Presidential Library
441 John Lewis Freedom Parkway NE, Atlanta, GA 30307

Bestselling author Cassandra King Conroy pays tribute to her late husband, Pat Conroy, the legendary figure of modern Southern literature.

This event is free and open to the public.  If you are unable to attend, you may pre-order a signed copy here:

About the Book

Cassandra King was leading a quiet life as a professor, divorced “Sunday wife” of a preacher, and debut novelist when she met Pat Conroy.

Their friendship bloomed into a tentative, long-distance relationship. Pat and Cassandra ultimately married, partly because Pat hated the commute from coastal South Carolina to her native Alabama. It was a union that would last 18 years, until the beloved literary icon’s death from pancreatic cancer in 2016.

In this poignant, intimate memoir, the woman he called King Ray looks back at her love affair with a natural-born storyteller whose lust for life was fueled by a passion for literature, food, and the Carolina Lowcountry that was his home. As she reflects on their relationship and the 18 years they spent together, cut short by Pat’s passing at 70, Cassandra reveals how the marshlands of the South Carolina Lowcountry ultimately cast their spell on her, too, and how she came to understand the convivial, generous, funny, and wounded flesh-and-blood man beneath the legend—her husband, the original Prince of Tides.

About the Author

Cassandra King is an award-winning and bestselling novelist whose works include "Moonrise," "Queen of Broken Hearts," "The Same Sweet Girls," "The Sunday Wife," and "Making Waves." Before becoming an author, Cassandra taught creative writing on the college level, conducted corporate writing seminars, and worked as a human interest reporter. The widow of acclaimed author Pat Conroy, Cassandra resides in Beaufort, South Carolina, where she is honorary chair of the Pat Conroy Literary Center.