Patricia McLinn has had 25 books published since 1990. Frequently cited by reviewers for compelling and believable characters, her books have resided on best-seller lists and gained national awards judged by readers, booksellers and fellow writers.

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After accepting that her first two ambitions – being a jockey or being the first female football coach at Notre Dame – were probably not going to happen, Patricia bowed to practicality and received an MSJ from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. Since then she's learned many lessons (and some interesting vocabulary) in her years in newsrooms in Illinois, North Carolina and Washington, D.C., while serving as various times as a sports writer, columnist, copy editor, copy chief and assignment editor for the Rockford Register-Star, Charlotte Observer and Washington Post.

Currently she edits part-time for the Washington Post, while writing full-time.

She lives in Northern Virginia in a house that grows piles of books and dog hair at an alarming rate.

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