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David Lauderdale

So you think you know your Pat Conroy

Conroy’s papers, which came to the University of South Carolina Libraries in May 2014, are displayed in the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections Gallery in the Ernest F. Hollingsworth Special Collections Library at USC.
Conroy’s papers, which came to the University of South Carolina Libraries in May 2014, are displayed in the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections Gallery in the Ernest F. Hollingsworth Special Collections Library at USC. FILE/THE STATE

How many of these questions about the South Carolina writer’s life and times in Beaufort County and his celebrated canon can you answer correctly?

David Lauderdale: 843-706-8115, @ThatsLauderdale

This story was originally published March 4, 2017 at 12:00 AM with the headline "So you think you know your Pat Conroy."

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