{"id":1853,"date":"2011-09-02T13:29:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T20:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1853"},"modified":"2016-09-27T11:04:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T18:04:25","slug":"patterson-richard-north-1947","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1853","title":{"rendered":"PATTERSON, RICHARD NORTH, 1947-"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Novelist; attorney. Born– February 2, 1947, Berkeley, Calif. Parents– Richard W. and Marjorie Frances (North) Patterson. Married– Judith Anne Riggs, January 12, 1974. Children– Two. Education– Ohio Wesleyan University, B.A., 1968; Case-Western Reserve University, J.D., 1971; creative writing classes at the University of Alabama. Admitted to Ohio Bar, 1971, Washington, D.C., 1973, and Alabama; practiced law in Birmingham, 1975-1978; attorney for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1973-1975; attorney in San Francisco, 1978-93.\u00a0 Member of advocacy groups concerned with gun violence, reproductive rights, and political reform.\u00a0 Received Edgar Allan Poe Award for best first mystery novel, 1979; Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere, 1995; Distinguished Alumni, Case Western Reserve University, 1997; Man of the Year, WWRAP, 2001; Maggie Award, Planned Parenthood, 2001; Distinguished Achievement Award, Ohio Wesleyan University, 2008; Silver Bullet Award from the International Thriller Writers Association, 2012.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contemporary Authors online; Richard North Patterson website<\/p>\n

Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Balance of Power.\u00a0 Ballantine, 2003.<\/p>\n

Caroline Masters.\u00a0 Ballantine, 2000.<\/p>\n

Conviction.\u00a0 Random House, 2005.<\/p>\n

Dark Lady.\u00a0 Ballantine, 2000.<\/p>\n

Degree of Guilt. New York; Knopf, 1993.<\/p>\n

The Devil’s Light.\u00a0 Scribner, 2011.<\/p>\n

Eden in Winter, 2014.<\/p>\n

Escape the Night. New York; Random, 1983.<\/p>\n

Eclipse.\u00a0 Henry Holt, 2009<\/p>\n

Exile.\u00a0 Henry Holt, 2007.<\/p>\n

Eyes of a Child.\u00a0 Knopf, 1995.<\/p>\n

Fall from Grace.\u00a0 Scribner, 2010.<\/p>\n

The Final Judgment.\u00a0 Knopf,\u00a0 1996.<\/p>\n

In the Name of Honor.\u00a0 Henry Holt, 2010.<\/p>\n

Lasko Tangent. New York; Norton, 1979.<\/p>\n

Loss of Innocence, 2013.<\/p>\n

No Safe Place.\u00a0 Knopf, 1998.<\/p>\n

Outside Man. Boston; Little, Brown, 1981.<\/p>\n

Private Screening. New York; Villard Books, 1985.<\/p>\n

Protect and Defend.\u00a0 Knopf, 2000.<\/p>\n

The Race.\u00a0 Henry Holt, 2007.<\/p>\n

Silent Witness.\u00a0 Knopf, 1996.<\/p>\n

The Spire.\u00a0 Henry Holt, 2009.<\/p>\n

Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n

The papers of Richard North Patterson are held by Boston University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biography: Novelist; attorney. Born– February 2, 1947, Berkeley, Calif. Parents– Richard W. and Marjorie Frances (North) Patterson. Married– Judith Anne Riggs, January 12, 1974. Children– Two. Education– Ohio Wesleyan University, B.A., 1968; Case-Western Reserve University, J.D., 1971; creative writing classes at the University of Alabama. Admitted to Ohio Bar, 1971, Washington, D.C., 1973, and Alabama; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4392,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions\/4392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}