“I didn’t know what I was getting into. My editor called me and said I’m loving it, I love the stories of Pat, but I’ve read it and I don’t know a thing about you. And I said, do you mean I have to talk about myself?” Cassandra King Conroy on her book, Tell Me a Story, a tribute to her late husband, literary icon Pat Conroy. On this episode, she lovingly talks about their first meeting at a literary conference, “the beginning of her spin in a category 5 hurricane called Conroy.” Pat and Cassandra were married for 18 years until his death of pancreatic cancer in 2016.

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