The story explores inequity in education and its links to prolonged poverty and racism as the result of geography and history. The Water is Wide became a seminal book in the field of education.
His first book, however, was his own true story of his year as a young teacher on Daufuskie Island, off the South Carolina coast. Pat Conroy (1945-2016) is perhaps best known for his popular novels that became blockbuster feature films, such as The Prince of Tides, with Barbra Streisand, Beaches, starring Bette Midler, and The Great Santini, featuring Robert Duvall.
Pat Conroy’s office set-up ©Author Adventures Pat Conroy, South Carolina’s Most Popular Literary Son
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