His best known work explores the dysfunctional family of Tom Wingo, who was raped as a child.
This man's experiences teaching in South Carolina were portrayed on film in a 1974 movie starring Jon Voight. He described his collegiate career playing point guard in the memoir My Losing Season, and drew upon his family's military nature in a work focusing on Lt. Colonel Bull Meecham entitled The Great Santini. His best known work explores the dysfunctional family of Tom Wingo, who was raped as a child. FTP, name this author of a work adapted into a film by Barbra Streisand, The Prince of Tides.
This man's experiences teaching in South Carolina were portrayed on film in a 1974 movie starring Jon Voight.
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