Bestselling author Cassandra King Conroy considers her life and the person she shared it with, paying tribute to her husband, Pat Conroy, the legendary figures of contemporary Southern literature.

Cassandra Ruler was leading a quiet life being a teacher, divorced “Weekend wife” of the preacher, and debut novelist when she met Pat Conroy.

Their friendship bloomed into a tentative, long-distance relationship. Pat and Cassandra ultimately married, partially because Pat hated the commute from seaside South about Inform Me A Story: MY ENTIRE LIFE with Pat Conroy Carolina to her indigenous Alabama. It had been a union that could last eighteen years, before much loved literary icon’s loss of life from pancreatic tumor in 2016.

Within this poignant, intimate memoir, the girl he known as King Ray looks back at her romance with a natural-born storyteller whose lust forever was fueled with a passion for literature, food, as well as the Carolina Lowcountry that was his house. As she reflects on their relationship and the eighteen years they spent jointly, cut short by Pat’s moving at seventy, Cassandra reveals the way the marshlands of the SC Lowcountry ultimately ensemble their spell on her, too, and exactly how she found understand the convivial, generous, funny, and wounded flesh-and-blood guy beneath the legend-her hubby, the initial Prince of Tides.