David Patterson

David Patterson represents narrative and idea-driven non-fiction as well as literary fiction, with an emphasis on journalists, scholars, public figures, and performers. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with Highest Honors in English in 1996, interned at Algonquin Books, worked at Politics and Prose Bookstore, and spent over a decade as an editor at PublicAffairs and Henry Holt and Company. His list includes Pulitzer Prize, Polk, Livingston, Whiting, and Lukas Award winners and finalists.