Author Pat Conroy lives, writes and draws a crowd in Highlands
Pat Conroy
HIGHLANDS–Pat Conroy’s latest novel — and his first since the mid-nineties — is South Of Broad, which recently reached number one on the New York Times bestseller list and is number two on the American Independent Booksellers list.
Conroy wrote a good bit of the book in Highlands, where he and his wife, writer Casandra King, have spent the past few summers.
Conroy’s recent book signing at Cyrano’s Bookshop in Highlands drew an enormous crowd, writes the Macon News’s Mac Isaacs in this feature.
Here’s an excerpt:
Cyrano’s Bookshop, a fixture on Main Street in Highlands since 1978, is one of Conroy’s favorite places as well. And it isn’t just because the establishment sells his books. Conroy tells the story of the first time he came to town. One of the banks here did not recognize him and would not cash his check. So Conroy thought, “Maybe they’ll know who I am at the bookstore.”
“Without question,” Randolph Shaffner, Cyrano’s founder and then owner said. Ever since, Conroy has cashed his checks at Cyrano’s. He refers to Shaffner as his “banker.”
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