![]() ![]() I am fortunate that my writer friend Anne Rivers Siddons lets me stay in her carriage house there when I come to town. It keeps drawing you back like a magnetic force. It is what the Upper East Side is to Manhattan, what Pacific Heights is to San Francisco, or what Beverly Hills is to Los Angeles.' SOB is mysterious. I said, ‘It is the most beautiful area of this gorgeous city. In meeting with my Doubleday publisher about writing, which is set there, she wanted to understand the big draw of this neighborhood. ![]() "I remember seeing this area near the Battery when I was a kid and I was stunned as to how beautiful it was. "I know of no more magical place in America than Charleston's South of Broad," Conroy told Fodor's. it's not a high-kicking, glossy lipstick city." In its shadows you can find metal work as delicate as lace . . . He described Charleston in his 2009 novel, South of Broad: "I carry the delicate porcelain beauty of Charleston like the hinged-shell of some soft-tissued mollusk. . . . ![]() South Carolina's most celebrated modern writer Pat Conroy passed away in 2016, but his prose about the Lowcountry will live on for generations. ![]()
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