Join us Mon., Mar. 11, 12 pm for lunch at Halls Signature Events (5 Faber St.), as Michael Mewshaw discusses his new book The Lost Prince: A Search for Pat Conroy (Counterpoint, hb., 288 pp., $32).
Tickets are $32 for the three-course luncheon, or $60 to add a signed copy of the book.
The Lost Prince is an intimate memoir of the friendship between Michael Mewshaw and Pat Conroy, one that involves their families and those days in Rome when they were both young―when Conroy went from being a popular regional writer to an international bestseller. Family snapshots beautifully illustrate that time. Shortly before his forty-ninth birthday, Conroy telephoned Mewshaw to ask a terrible favor. With great reluctance, Mewshaw did as he was asked―and never saw Pat Conroy again.
Although they never managed to reconcile their differences completely, Conroy later urged Mewshaw to write about “me and you and what happened . . . I know it would cause much pain to both of us, but here is what that story has that none of your others have.” The Lost Prince is Mewshaw’s fulfillment of a promise.
Michael Mewshaw’s five-decade career includes award-winning fiction, nonfiction, literary criticism and investigative journalism. He is the author of the nonfiction works Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal and Between Terror and Tourism; the novel Year of the Gun; and the memoir Do I Owe You Something? He has published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and numerous international outlets. He spends much of his time in Key West, Florida.
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