Cassandra King

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Cassandra King (born 18 February 1944) is an American writer. She has written five novels: Making Waves in Zion (1995), The Sunday Wife (2002), The Same Sweet Girls (2005), Queen of Broken Hearts (2007), and Moonrise (2013).[1][2]

King grew up in Pinckard, Alabama, and attended Alabama College (BA, 1967). She later returned to the same institution (now called the University of Montevallo) and obtained an MFA in 1988. She has taught at Jefferson State Community College, Gadsden State Community College, and the University of Montevallo.[3]

King was married to a pastor, and then divorced. She based her novel The Sunday Wife on her experience.[4][5] She then married writer Pat Conroy in 1998. After his death in 2016, King wrote a memoir, Tell Me a Story: My Life With Pat Conroy (2019), which was awarded the 2020 Southern Book Prize for nonfiction.[6]

King won Troy University's Hall-Waters Prize in 2017,[7] and the 2025 Harper Lee Award for Alabama's Distinguished Writer of the Year.[3]

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  1. ^ "Cassandra King: The Same Sweet Girls" (PDF). Jacksonville State University. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
  2. ^ "Cassandra King Conroy and Mathew Guinn". Write On, Mississippi!. 20 October 2020. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
  3. ^ a b Evans, Margaret (25 February 2025). "Cassandra King Receives Harper Lee Award". Low Country Weekly. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
  4. ^ Noble, Dan (31 October 2019). ""Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy" By: Cassandra King Conroy". Alabama Public Radio. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
  5. ^ Lee, Anna (17 April 2014). "Cassandra King: Confessions of a failed Southern belle". The Greenville News. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
  6. ^ "CH@T: Cassandra King Conroy to highlight Chatham Literacy's fall event". The Chatham News. 15 September 2021. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
  7. ^ "Cassandra King receives Troy University's Hall-Waters Prize". Troy University. 21 April 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
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