Join us Monday, November 18th @ 6pm for a reading with Jonathan Haupt and Mark Powell on the book Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy.
About the Book
OUR PRINCE OF SCRIBES: WRITERS REMEMBER PAT CONROY
New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his 50-year writing life. In sharing their stories in Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy, 67 of his fellow writers honor his memory as friend, mentor, and champion. Volume co-editor and executive director of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center Jonathan Haupt will discuss Conroy as lifelong teacher with fellow Our Prince of Scribes contributing writer and award-winning novelist Mark Powell. Powell will also read from his newly published novel Firebird. Through their remembrances, a vibrant, multifaceted portrait of Pat Conroy comes to life and sheds new light on the writer and the man.
PRAISE FOR OUR PRINCE OF SCRIBES
"A moving tribute to the legacy of one of the South's brightest lights."—Garden & Gun's Talk of the South
“Our Prince of Scribes isn't just a collection of homages but also a delightful introduction to Conroy's vast and talented circle of friends.”—Washington Post
“His wound may have been geography, but his legacy was generosity. That’s the takeaway from this new collection of essays honoring the late Pat Conroy.... A fitting tribute to a unique, significant writer and man.”—Kirkus Reviews
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the former director of the University of South Carolina Press, where he created the Story River Books southern fiction imprint with Pat Conroy. Haupt is co-editor (with novelist Nicole Seitz) of Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy. His articles and author interviews have appeared in the Charleston Post & Courier, Beaufort Lowcountry Weekly, Fall Lines literary journal, Pink magazine, Southern Writers Suite T blog, and elsewhere. He lives in Beaufort, South Carolina.
Mark Powell has been called the ''best Appalachian novelist of his generation'' by Ron Rash, and a writer ''on the verge of greatness'' by Pat Conroy. He is the author of six novels, including most recently, Small Treasons and Firebird (forthcoming). Powell has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Breadloaf and Sewanee Writers' Conferences, and in 2014 was a Fulbright Fellow to Slovakia. In 2009 he received the Chaffin Award for contributions to Appalachian literature. He holds degrees from Yale Divinity School, the University of South Carolina, and the Citadel. He lives in the mountains of North Carolina where he teaches at Appalachian State University.
