In modern Southern literature, the late Pat Conroy remains a leading - and legendary - figure. His widow - Cassandra King Conroy, a best-selling author in her own right - has written a memoir, “Tell Me A Story: My Life With Pat Conroy.” What began as a friendship between a literary icon and a debut novelist became a tentative, long-distance relationship between him in coastal South Carolina and her native Alabama - and ultimately, they married. Their union lasted eighteen years, until Pat died