ATTENTION: THERE HAS BEEN A PROGRAMING CHANGE FOR THIS CONTENT OF THIS EVENT!
Due to an unexpected development, Johnathan Haupt is not available to lead the Nature Writer Lectures this month. Hopefully a make up date will be announce as soon as possible. We do not have anymore information on that at this time.
As several tickets have already sold to both the Sunday and Monday Sessions of the January Lectures we don’t want anyone to be disappointed. In lieu of the Nature Lecture, Cassandra King Conroy, Pat’s wife and renowned author in her own right has graciously offered to come speak with us in an intimate setting on her life and times with Pat Conroy!
We hope everyone who has purchased tickets will still attend with the same enthusiasm. However if you would prefer a refund please let us know at least 24 hours prior to the event.
Limited Seating still remains available at this time. Please purchase the original ticket below if you wish to attend.
Pat Conroy Literary Center executive director Jonathan Haupt and poet Tim Conroy will discuss the nature writing of Pat Conroy, the bestselling author of The Water Is Wide, The Great Santini, The Prince of Tides, and more. From his obscure boyhood poetry to his beloved lyrical adult prose, Conroy wrote about the beauty of our natural world as both wondrous and perilous, using the lowcountry not only as a setting but as the central character of his many books. This presentation will highlight representative examples of Conroy’s nature writing from across the span of his writing life, drawing attention to how Conroy’s relationship with nature is also ultimately a relationship with his deeply felt spiritual and humanistic faith.
The $25 registration fee includes the presentation, refreshments, and a donation in support of the year-round educational mission of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center.
About Our Presenter:
Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center, the past director of the University of South Carolina Press, and co-editor of the anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy, winner of 17 book awards. He is a frequent guest book reviewer for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Charleston Post and Courier. He has been honored with the Doug Marlette Literacy Leadership Award, and the South Carolina Association of School Librarians President’s Award. Under Jonathan's leadership, the Conroy Center has been recognized as an American Library Association Literary Landmark, an affiliate of the American Writers Museum, and winner of the Civitas Award for Tourism Leadership. With Claire Bennett, Jonathan also serves as co-mentor to the student leaders of DAYLO: Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization, who in turn have been recognized with a national commendation from the American Association of School Librarians, the South Carolina Education Association's Richard W. Riley Award for Human and Civil Rights, and an honorable mention for the South Carolina Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Award.