Pat Conroy has died at 70. His novels “The Great Santini” and “The Prince of Tides” were best-sellers.
Saturday, March 5, 2016 12:04 AM EST
Pat Conroy, whose tortured family life and memories of coastal South Carolina served as unending sources of inspiration for his fiction, notably the novels “The Great Santini,” “The Lords of Discipline” and “The Prince of Tides,” died Friday night in Beaufort, S.C. He was 70.
The cause of death was pancreatic cancer.
Mr. Conroy mined the people, the places and the emotional trauma of his childhood and young manhood for his thinly fictionalized novels and a series of memoirs that captivated readers with their tone. They also supplied the material for “The Great Santini,” a modest commercial success that gained wider fame when it was made into a film in 1979 with Robert Duvall playing Lt. Col. Bull Meecham, a stand-in for Mr. Conroy’s father, and Blythe Danner as his wife.
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