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Patricia Daly-Lipe
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"We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."(C. Day Lewis) I have written historical fiction, short stories about animals and the high seas, non-fiction, and history.
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Please visit www.literarylady.com
From writing for newspapers( including The Evening Star in Washington, DC) to teaching at Writing Centers and universities to keeping a diary from childhood through my own motherhood, writng has always been part of my life. In between, I have raised, raced, and shown thoroughbred horses, raised three children as a single parent, traveled extensively spending several years living in Europe, had sevral special dogs as my "shadows", lived three years on a sailboat, and enjoyed oil painting from pets to landscapes to surealistic works. Many stories to tell!
Accomplishments: winner, JADA Award winning novel for 'Forbidden Loves, Paris Between the Wars', President National League of American Pen Women both La Jolla (CA) and Washington, DC Branches, winner Woman of Achievement NLAPW 2004, Presenter National Capital District 36 2007, winner San Diego Book Award 2002 for 'La Jolla, A Celebration of Its Past', Historian DC Daughters of American Colonists, PhD Creative Arts and Communications, many art awards, 2nd prize poetry contest Virginia Writers Inc. 2010
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Books
| | La Jolla, A Celebration of Its Past by Patricia Daly-Lipe
Using the philosophy that history is someone else's point of view, this book is a compilation of stories about the people who discovered and helped develop the little seaside town with a funny name: La Jolla, California....
Amazon.com
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| Myth, Magic, and Metaphor, A Journey into the Heart of Creativity by Patricia Daly-Lipe
Myth, Magic, and Metaphor takes the reader on a journey – a journey of discovery. The book was not written to provide answers. It was written to provoke questions. Tidbits of information about history, art, and literature, philosophy, mathematics, and music are investigated as components of the creative process. In the end, the author hopes that this book will have encouraged the busy reader t...
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 | A Cruel Calm, Paris Between the Wars by Patricia Daly-Lipe
Focused on the period between the wars (1927 – 1939), A Cruel Calm, visits an era of innovation on all levels when Paris was the cultural capital of the world. With Charles Lindbergh, James Joyce, Coco Chanel, Gertrude Stein, Joseph Campbell, Hemingway, Picasso, e e cummings, Amelia Earhart and Besse Coleman, my historical fiction, which took 15 years to research and write, depicts both history ...
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Author's website
Xlibris
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 | All Alone, Washington to Rome, A '60s Memoir by Patricia Daly-Lipe
Join me in a time and place from the past, my past. Beginning with the death of my mother when I was 18 until I was 23. From Washington to Rome, Paris, and London with a year at the University of Louvain in Belgium, meet royalty, priests, diplomats and students and experience life in the '60s....
Amazon.com
Author's website
Xlibris
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 | Messages from Nature by Patricia Daly-Lipe
How would it feel to be in a small sailboat far from land in gale force winds? Are horses psychic? Did Sweet William come back to say goodbye? How can a puppy found starving to death in the Virginia countryside become a master sailor? What was it like to be at the helm of a 165 foot cement schooner and, looking down the steps, see water gushing into the cabin? Explore and discover the answers to t...
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Author's website
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Links
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| www.literarylady.com
Includes my 5 books plus reviews, bio, and synopses of each.
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www.patricialipe.com
My life plus a page about my husband's endeavors flying at high altitudes in a glider(over 38,00 feet!) and another page showing photos of my horses.
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National league of American Pen Women, DC Branch
Retired as President, then Vice President, and now looking forward to working on the Board of the National League.
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Distributor
Holistic health food for dogs and cats. All proceeds go to my grand daughter's education fund.
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Additional information
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| My historical fiction, 'Forbidden Loves, Paris Between the Wars' (2nd edition 2008) is being considered for a movie. Winner of several awards, this book is now with a new publisher and is titled A CRUEL CALM, Paris Between the Wars.
My newest book is ALL ALONE, Washington to Rome, A '60s Memoir. |
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