The topics she covers are often best discussed in a group, such as a mother-daughter book club, where readers can talk about their thoughts on the subject while discussing a character in her book.
Yet McCormick writes about these topics to enlighten, so reading her work doesn’t feel preachy. And in My Brother’s Keeper, a boy covers for his brother who increasingly experiences problems as he travels further down a path of drug abuse. In Cut, she wrote about a young girl who cut herself to deal with feelings of guilt she has over her brother’s illness. Her latest, Sold, tells the story of a young girl from Nepal who is sold into the sex slave industry in India. She lives in New York with two children, a husband and two cats.Patricia McCormick has received much acclaim for the novels she’s written about important topics that people often find uncomfortable talking about. She has written for The New York Times, Parents Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Ladies Home Journal, Town & Country, More, Reader’s Digest, Mademoiselle and other publications and has been an adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and an instructor of creative writing at the New School University. Her awards include the American Library Association Best Book of the Year, New York Public Library Best Book for the Teenaged and the Children’s Literature Council’s Choice. This was followed by My Brother's Keeper in 2005, about a boy struggling with his brother's addiction and Sold in 2006. Her first novel for teens was Cut, about a young woman who self-injures herself. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1986 and an M.F.A. She graduated from Rosemont College in 1978, followed by an M.S. She has written for The New York Times, Parents Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Ladies Home Journal, Town & Country, More, Reader’s Digest, Patricia McCormick is a journalist and writer.
Patricia McCormick is a journalist and writer.
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