Pat Conroy (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Donald Patrick Conroy was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the eldest of seven children. His father, Donald Conroy, was a marine pilot and expected Donald Patrick to become a fighter pilot. When Conroy enrolled in a typing class in high school, his father demanded he take physics instead because pilots did not need to know how to type. Conroy’s mother, Francis Dorothy Conroy, groomed him to become a southern gentleman. She envisioned him as Ashley Wilkes, a character from her favorite novel, Gone with the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell. Instead, he would become a popular southern...
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