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Pat Conroy collection, remembrances to be released this fall

Associated Press photo: Lou Krask

Credit: Jennifer Brett

Credit: Jennifer Brett

Associated Press photo: Lou Krask
By Jennifer Brett
June 6, 2016

The late Pat Conroy isn't done publishing.  "A Lowcountry Heart," described as a collection of letters, interviews, and magazine articles spanning Conroy's long literary career, supplemented by work from his friends, will be released on Oct. 25, a day before what would have been his 71st birthday.

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