Book #26855

Thomas Wolfe

Pat Conroy

Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine+
Edition: Signed Limited Edition
Publisher: Atlanta: Old New York Book Shop Press, 2000.

Price: $210.00

Limited edition of 250 numbered copies for sale, this is #163, frontispiece by Barry Moser. Preceded by a publication in Southern Cultures in the Fall of 1999. Signed by author Pat Conroy and artist Barry Moser on the limitation page. A very fine copy in glassine cover.

"I have needed to write the American novelist, Thomas Wolfe, a love letter since I first encountered him in Eugene Norris's high school English class at the end of 1961".

The charming portrait of Wolfe by Southern novelist Pat Conroy ; 8vo; 30 pages; Signed by Author & Illustrator.

Author Bio

Pat Conroy

Pat Conroy, born October 26, 1945 as the first of seven children of a young career military officer from Chicago and a Southern beauty from Alabama, is a New York Times bestselling author who has written several acclaimed novels and memoirs. Two of his novels, The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, were made into Oscar-nominated films. He is recognized as a leading figure of late-20th century Southern literature.

Conroy currently lives in Beaufort, South Carolina with his wife Cassandra King, author of four popular novels.

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