Pat Conroy’s Reverence for Teaching
“The great teachers of the world fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.”—Pat Conroy

Free and open to the public, this presentation explores best-selling author Pat Conroy’s transformational years as a student at Beaufort High School and later as a teacher at BHS and on Daufuskie Island. Included are audio and video clips, photographs, and both published and unpublished excerpts by and about Conroy (1945-2016), the best-selling author of a dozen novels and memoirs, including The Water Is Wide and The Prince of Tides. The talk will also include an overview of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center created in Conroy’s honor, with an emphasis on the artists and artwork featured at the Center and their connections to Conroy’s legacy.

This program is sponsored by South Carolina Humanities, a not-for-profit organization; inspiring, engaging, and enriching South Carolinians with programs on literature, history, culture, and heritage. www.schumanities.org

About Our Presenter: Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center, the founding director of the annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival, and the former director of the University of South Carolina Press. He serves on the boards of the South Carolina Academy of Authors and the Friends of South Carolina Libraries. Haupt’s book reviews and author interviews have appeared in the Charleston Post and Courier; Lowcountry Weekly; Fall Lines; Pink magazine; Beaufort Lifestyle magazine; Southern Writers Suite T blog; and the Conroy Center’s Porch Talk blog. He is co-editor with Charleston novelist and artist Nicole Seitz of the award-winning anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy.