Actors as different as Jon Voight, Michael O'Keefe, David Keith and Nick Nolte have played writer Pat Conroy and his fictional surrogates in a string of memorable movies. Roll them all together, with their rough edges intact, and you wouldn't achieve the total range of his creative personality. A partial list of his work includes "The Water is Wide" (filmed as "Conrack"), a straightforward, ebullient teaching memoir; "The Great Santini," an intensely focused character study of a tyrannical Marine ace; "The Lords of Discipline," a hard-hitting fictional exposé of initiation rites at a military college; and "The Prince of Tides," a lush, traumatic Southern family epic.
Read the full story here. See also: South of Broad: A Novel
, My Reading Life
, The Lords of Discipline: A Novel
, The Great Santini: A Novel
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