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James Patterson

Nacido: March 22, 1947 – Newburgh, New York, United States

James Patterson is an American author known for fast-paced thrillers, crime fiction, and young adult novels. He is best known for the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, and Maximum Ride series. Among the world’s bestselling writers, he has sold hundreds of millions of books and won the Edgar Award.

Biografía y Trayectoria del Autor

James Patterson grew up in Newburgh, New York, and studied English at Manhattan College, where he graduated summa cum laude in 1969, before earning a master’s degree from Vanderbilt University in 1970. He entered advertising rather than academia, starting at J. Walter Thompson as a copywriter and eventually rising to lead its North American division. For years he wrote before and after work, treating fiction as a parallel vocation until The Thomas Berryman Number, published in 1976, won the Edgar Award for a first novel. The deeper turning point came later: after the early success of Alex Cross and his own realization that writing, not advertising, was the lane he wanted to stay in, he left the ad business in 1996 to become a full-time author. ((https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Patterson))

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If you do what you love, working hard is fun
-B&N Reads interview
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The challenge for me was writing a different kind of book
-Strand Magazine interview
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I’m big on teams. I think teamwork is great
-The WD Interview
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There are so many incredible stories out there that never get written because life gets in the way
-AP News: Go Finish Your Book
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Money doesn't matter right now
-CBS This Morning interview on Zoo
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Banning books doesn’t protect our kids. It keeps them in the dark
-Stop the Insanity: Book Banning
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But I found out pretty quickly that on most sets, the novelist ranks somewhere below the caterer
-Stop the Insanity: No Hurray for Hollywood
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I’m James Patterson and I put my name on what I write
-Stop the Insanity: Gotta Love Those Haters
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No games. No gimmicks
-Stop the Insanity: Bill Baby Bill
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We get strung along. Gaslighted. Ignored. Lied to
-Stop the Insanity: Don’t You Dare Steal This Idea

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Voces de la Comunidad

"James Patterson is the gold standard by which all others are judged"

Steve Berry

"James Patterson is The Boss. End of"

Ian Rankin

"Patterson is in a class by himself"

The Guardian

"No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what James Patterson has, in spades"

Lee Child

"Patterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along"

Michael Connelly

"It's no mystery why James Patterson is the world's most popular thriller writer ... Simply put: nobody does it better"

Jeffery Deaver

"Patterson knows where our deepest fears are buried ... there's no stopping his imagination"

The New York Times Book Review

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