Author of The candidate's wife, Ladies' lunch, Good intentions, The woman alone; co-author of I know just what you mean.
Patricia O'Brien's award-winning career has spanned the worlds of books - fiction and non-fiction - journalism, politics and education. Her latest novel, The Dressmaker, written under the pseudonym of Kate Alcott, is a New York Times best seller. From 1976 to 1987 she was a political correspondent and columnist for Knight-Ridder newspapers in Washington, covering the Reagan White House, Congress and the 1984 national political campaigns of Gary Hart and Geraldine Ferraro. From journalism she switched to politics, becoming press secretary for Governor Michael Dukakis when he ran for president in 1987. O'Brien graduated from the University of Oregon in 1966, and then began her journalistic career at the South Bend Tribune in South Bend, Indiana. O'Brien was the Baltimore Sun Distinguished Lecturer at the University of Maryland School of Journalism in 1989, where she taught a course on journalistic ethics. She has also taught at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She has four grown daughters and lives with her husband, Frank Mankiewicz, in Washington, D.C. - https://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm/author_number/1521/patricia-obrien
Patricia O'Brien appears in the following:
Scandal in the Beecher Family
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Patricia O’Brien’s historical novel Harriet and Isabella takes readers through a 19th century scandal involving the remarkable family of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Clinton's First Hundred Days (hour 1); Media and the Environment (hour 2)
Sunday, May 02, 1993
The First 100 Days: On the Media on the media and Bill Clinton.
