My favorite novelist has died. I read The Prince of Tides at 20 in essentially ~28 hours with only a brief 4 hours where I went to sleep in between. Since then I have read almost everything he wrote and enjoyed every one of his books, especially The Lords of Discipline. Pat Conroy made me fall in love with the south, the smooth way he wrote about it. To this day, I can see myself living in Hunstville,AL. May he rest in peace.