The Charleston County Public Library and the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will hold two free virtual events about the reading and teaching life of acclaimed southern storyteller Pat Conroy (1945–2016) on September 16th and 21st, 7 pm to 8 pm. Presented by Conroy Center executive director Jonathan Haupt, both programs will be held on Zoom, with advance registration required through the CCPL website.
The schedule is as follows:
Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center and the former director of the University of South Carolina Press, where he created the Story River Books fiction imprint with Pat Conroy, named by Garden & Gun magazine as one of “the top ten things to love about the South.” Jonathan's book reviews and author interviews have appeared in the Charleston Post and Courier, Beaufort Lowcountry Weekly, Beaufort Lifestyle magazine, Savannah Morning News' Beacon magazine, the Southern Review of Books, and Southern Writers Magazine's Suite T blog. He is co-editor with Nicole Seitz of the anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy, the recipient of more than a dozen book awards.
