Before she became Cassandra King Conroy, she was a novelist, a professor, and a preacher’s ex-wife living a quiet life in Alabama. Then she met Pat Conroy.
In Tell Me a Story, Cassandra shares the deeply personal journey of falling in love with one of America’s most iconic Southern writers. Their friendship blossomed into marriage, laughter, and a home in the Carolina Lowcountry—until Pat’s passing in 2016.
This memoir is a tender and unflinching portrait of a great love shaped by literature, grief, and the messy, joyful truth of sharing a life. With vivid prose and emotional clarity, Cassandra peels back the legend to reveal the man behind the stories.
It is a love letter to Pat, but also to storytelling itself.
