The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son (51 page)

The Peek family of Alabama. Jasper is Pat’s grandfather.

The Conroy family of Chicago.

Pat at the Old New York Bookshop in 1976. He had just published
The Great Santini
.

Pat talking with Royce Bemis, a sales rep from Houghton Mifflin, the publisher of his first four books.

Don signing books at the Old New York Bookshop in 1976.

Pat playing one-on-one with Michael O’Keefe during the filming of
The Great Santini
in 1979.

Pat, Don, and Col. Thomas Courvoise, also known as “The Boo.”

Don, Cliff Graubart, and Pat.

Barbara, Jessica, Megan, and Melissa with Pat during a summer in Minnesota.

The Conroys move to Rome from 1982 to 1984 and live on the Piazza Farnese.

Peg, her granddaughter Susannah, and Pat in Rome, 1982.

Shannon Faulkner and Pat autograph books after speaking at a St. Helena Island art gallery in 1995.

The trip to Ireland, 1996. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is in the foreground at left.

Pat with his favorite teacher from childhood, Gene Norris.