Patricia mccormick author biography formation

  • Patricia holds a master's degree in creative writing, and has contributed regularly to The New York Times.
  • It's based on a true story of a survivor of what happened in Cambodia whom the author extensively interviewed so is like a mixture between fact and fiction.
  • Patricia McCormick is an American journalist, writer of crime and realistic fiction, and winner of several awards.

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    The Plot to Kill Hitler: Dietrich Bonhoeffer—Pastor, Spy, Unlikely Hero

    October 1,
    Richie’s Picks: THE PLOT TO KILL HITLER: DIETRICH BONHOEFFER: PASTOR, SPY, UNLIKELY HERO bygd Patricia McCormick, Balzer & Bray, September , p., ISBN:

    “Silence in the face of evil fryst vatten itself evil.”
    -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    “Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me.”
    -- Martin Niemoller

    In THE PLOT TO KILL HITLER, young readers are provided an introduction to the rise of madman Adolf Hitler. Patricia McCormick’s well-researched and documented history of little-known hero, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, also repeatedly shows the failure bygd clergymen, both inside and outside of Germany, to oppose or speak out against Hitler’s actions.

    “Dietrich had seen the effects of ‘separate but equal’ in the United States, and even though he was just a junior lecturer at Berlin University, he knew he had to speak out. The rest of the country might have fallen under Hitler’s spell, but Bonhoeffer th

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    November 24,
    As was true with her National Book Award finalist, Sold, Patricia McCormick uses her fiction writing skills and her journalistic writing ability to share a child victim's harrowing tale. In this case it is Arn Chorn-Pond, survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia. Never Fall Down, named for one of the first things the captured boy learned to survive, travels the full arc of his experience, from the last days of normalcy before the Khmer Rouge takeover through the years of captivity, forced labor, and eventual conscription as a Khmer Rouge "soldier" when the Vietnamese invaded.

    And as was the case with Sold, this is a young adult book with some adult themes, in this case, violence, death, murder, and other atrocities. At times the descriptions get quite graphic. Adding to the effect is McCormick's decision to tell it as Arn himself would after he has learned but not mastered all the nuances of English. The contrast of this young, naive voice in

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    Lynn Joseph on Diversity in Writing

    Diversity, By Any Other Name, is Still Sweet

    By Lynn Joseph

    I am known as a “Caribbean” writer. Is it because I am from Trinidad, where I was born, and where I lived for the first nine years of my life before assuming a bi-country existence; nine months in the United States and three months in Trinidad every summer until I was 21? Or is it because, birthplace aside, the settings for most of my books are on Caribbean islands? But suppose I was born in the U.S. or England, or Thailand, and I wrote books set in the Caribbean, would I still be considered a “Caribbean” writer?

    I ask that question because most of my schooling, from the age of nine has been in the United States. I attended a predominately all-White high school, college and law school. Now, I am happily pursuing my craft in a MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts where the majority of students and teachers are White. Why am I considered a “Caribbean” author if I learned to w

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