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As Bull Meecham/Meechum is killed in the crash of his fighter in both the novel and movie versions of The Great Santini, and his funeral scene was filmed at the same cemetery for the movie, Conroy joked while planning his own funeral that it would be the second time he would be buried there. Awards and decorations.
May 14, 1998 · Col. Donald Conroy, a storied Marine fighter pilot whose domestic code dictated that he never strike his daughters and not begin beating his sons until after they had learned to walk, died on...
May 10, 1998 · Col. Donald Conroy, the father of best-selling author Pat Conroy and the subject of his son's novel ``The Great Santini,'' died Saturday of colon cancer. He was 77. Conroy, a Marine fighter pilot nicknamed ``The Great Santini,'' spent 33 years in the service until he retired in 1974.
May 15, 1998 · Donald Conroy disappeared for three days in shame after the book was published, transformed himself and became what his author son later described as the perfect father.
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In this powerful and intimate memoir, the beloved bestselling author of The Prince of Tides and his father, the inspiration for The Great Santini, find some common ground at long last. Pat Conroy’s father, Donald Patrick Conroy, was a towering figure in his son’s life. The Marine Corps fighter pilot was often brutal, cruel, and violent; as Pat says...
“An emotionally difficult journey that should lend fans of Conroy’s fiction an insightful back story to his richly imagined characters. One of the most widely read authors from the American South puts his demons to bed at long last. One doesn’t have to have read The Great Santini to know that Pat Conroy was deeply scarred by his childhood. It is th...
“Conroy is a master of language.” The Atlanta Journal “Conroy is an immensely gifted stylist….No one can describe a tide or a sunset with his lyricism and exactitude.” Chris Bohjalian, The Washington Post “Conroy writes with a momentum that’s impossible to resist.” People “Conroy takes aim at our darkest emotions, lets the arrow fly and hits a bull...
Donald Conroy died on 9 May 1998 from colon cancer. He is buried at Beaufort National Cemetery in Beaufort, SC. Origin of Nickname/Handle: Novelist Pat Conroy (Conroy's son) used his father as the inspiration for the fictitious character Marine Lt. Col. "Bull" Meechum in his book, The Great Santini.
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Col. Donald Conroy, father of best-selling author Pat Conroy and the subject of his son’s novel “The Great Santini,” died Saturday of colon cancer. He was 77. Conroy, a Marine
