Patricia McCormick is an American journalist and writer of realistic fiction for young adults. She has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award. Her books rely heavily on research and interviews. To write her novel Sold, McCormick traveled to the brothels of India and the mountain villages of Nepal to interview survivors of sex trafficking. For her book Never Fall Down, she spent a month in Cambodia with a survivor of the Khmer Rouge Genocide. She has worked with Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who was shot by the Taliban for standing up for her right to an education. The book, I am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World, was published in 2013.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Patricia McCormick
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: Sag Harbor, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2007
More:
www.pattymccormick.com
Studios
Banks
Patricia McCormick worked in the Banks studio.
Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…