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name: "Pat Conroy"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "26 October 1945"
died: "4 March 2016"
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average_as: "writer"
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updated: "2026-09-20T06:57:25.418920+00:00"
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# Pat Conroy

Writer. Born 26 October 1945 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Died 4 March 2016.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 26 October 1945, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- **Died:** 4 March 2016
- **Also known as:** Donald Patrick Conroy
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Conroy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2451348, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0175852/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/64839

## Biography

Pat Conroy, also credited as Donald Patrick Conroy, was an American novelist and screenwriter. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, he attended the Citadel military college in South Carolina and later taught on Daufuskie Island before turning to writing full time.

His best-known novels include *The Great Santini* (1976), *The Lords of Discipline* (1980) and *The Prince of Tides* (1986). Several of his books were adapted into films, among them *Conrack* (1974), based on *The Water Is Wide*, and *The Prince of Tides* (1991), for which he wrote the screenplay with Becky Johnston.

Conroy died in Beaufort, South Carolina, in 2016.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Prince of Tides* (1991), Fi1m 65, Novel, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-prince-of-tides.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Water Is Wide* (2006), Novel
- *Tell About the South: Voices in Black and White* (1998), Actor
- *The Prince of Tides* (1991), Novel, Screenplay — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/the-prince-of-tides.md)
- *Unconquered* (1989), Writer
- *The Lords of Discipline* (1983), Novel
- *The Great Santini* (1979), Novel
- *Conrack* (1974), Novel

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1992: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *The Prince of Tides*

### Other awards — 2 won

- Lillian Smith Book Award 1981: Lillian Smith Book Award (won)
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards 1973: Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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