![]() ![]() Born in Atlanta, the first of seven children, to Donald, a Marine Corps fighter pilot, and Peggy, a housewife, he had an unsettled early life growing up on a series of military bases, mostly in the south, before the family finally put down roots in Beaufort, South Carolina when he was 15. “One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family,” Conroy said. ![]() Four of them were made into films, including The Prince of Tides, starring Barbra Streisand, which had seven Oscar nominations, The Great Santini, for which Michael O’Keefe and Robert Duvall received Oscar nominations playing characters based on Conroy and his abusive father, and The Water Is Wide, which became the movie Conrack, starring Jon Voight. Pat Conroy, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 70, wrote a remarkable series of books that strip-mined the bitter memories of his early years in South Carolina. ![]()
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