Born October 26, 1945, in Atlanta, GA; son of Donald (a military officer) and Frances Dorothy Conroy; married Barbara Bolling, 1969 (divorced, 1977); married Lenore Gurewitz, March 21, 1981 (divorced); married Caasandra King (a novelist); children: (first marriage) Megan; Jessica, Melissa (stepdaughters); (second marriage) Susannah; Gregory, Emily (stepchildren). Education: The Citadel, B.A., 1967. Politics: Democrat. Memberships: Authors Guild, Authors League of America, Writers Guild, PEN. Addresses: Home: Beaufort, SC. Office: Old New York Book Shop, 1069 Juniper St. NE, Atlanta, GA 30309. Agent: Marly Rusoff & Associates, Inc., P.O. Box 524, Bronxville, NY 10708.

• The Boo, McClure Press (Verona, VA), 1970.
• The Water Is Wide, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1972.
• The Great Santini (novel), Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1976, Dial Press Trade Paperbacks (New York, NY), 2006.
• The Lords of Discipline, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1980, Dial Press Trade Paperbacks (New York, NY), 2006.
• The Prince of Tides (novel; also see below), Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1986.
• (Adaptor, with Becky Johnson) The Prince of Tides (screenplay; based on Conroy's novel), Paramount, 1991.
• Beach Music (novel), Nan A. Talese/Doubleday (New York, NY), 1995.
• My Losing Season (memoir), Nan A. Talese/Doubleday (New York, NY), 2002.
• (With Suzanne Williamson Pollak) The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes of My Life, Nan A. Talese (New York, NY), 2004.
• (Author of introduction) Leo Tolstoy,War and Peace, Signet Classic (New York, NY), 2007.
• South of Broad (novel), Nan A. Talese (New York, NY), 2009.
• My Reading Life (memoir), Nan A. Talese/Doubleday (New York, NY), 2010.

Author of screenplays, including television movie Invictus, 1988, and (with Doug Marlett) film Ex.