| Authors: |
Conroy, Pat.
Minor, Wendell.
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| Material type: |
Biography |
| Subject: |
Conroy, Pat -- Books and reading.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, c2010. |
| Description: |
337 p. ; 19 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780385533577 0385533578 |
| Contents: |
The lily -- Gone with the wind -- The teacher -- Charles Dickens on Daufuskie Island -- The librarian -- The Old New York Book Shop -- The book rep -- My first writers' conference -- On being a military brat -- A southerner in Paris -- A love letter to Thomas Wolfe -- The Count -- My teacher, James Dickey -- Why I write -- The city. |
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| Summary: |
Bestselling author Pat Conroy acknowledges the books that have shaped him and celebrates the profound effect reading has had on his life. |