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King, Cassandra 1944-

PERSONAL: Born 1944, in AL; married Pat Conroy (an author); children: Jim, Jake, Jason.

ADDRESSES: Office—c/o Hyperion Books, 77 West 66th Street, 11th Fl., New York, NY 10023.

CAREER: Author.

Cassandra King - Cassandra King

Taught college-level English and writing in Alabama.

WRITINGS:

Making Waves in Zion,Black Belt Press (Montgomery, AL), 1995.

The Sunday Wife, Hyperion (New York, NY), 2002.

WORK IN PROGRESS: The Same Sweet Girls, a novel.

SIDELIGHTS: Cassandra King was raised in Alabama and moved to South Carolina with author Pat Conroy (Prince of Tides) who she met and married after asking him to write a blurb for her second novel, The Sunday Wife. This story is set in the Florida town of Crystal Springs, the new home of Dean Lynch, where Lynch's preacher husband Ben has been assigned a new and affluent Methodist congregation.

Dean comes from a poor, musical family, and her husband's ambitions clash with her own simple leanings. Dean was educated through her ch Tell Me a Story : My Life with Pat Conroy - Google Books HUV