Patricia C. Wrede

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March 27, 1953 in Chicago, The United States

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http://www.pcwrede.com/

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Young Adult, Fantasy

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Patricia Collins Wrede was born in Chicago, Illinois and is the eldest of five children. She started writing in seventh grade. She attended Carleton College in Minnesota, where she majored in Biology and managed to avoid taking any English courses at all. She began work on her first novel, Shadow Magic, just after graduating from college in 1974. She finished it five years later and started her second book at once, having become permanently hooked on writing by this time.

Patricia received her M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1977.
She worked for several years as a financial analyst and accountant, first with the Minnesota Hospital Association, then with B. Dalton Booksellers, and finally at the Dayton Hudson Corporation headquarter...more Patricia Collins Wrede was born in Chicago, Illinois and is the eldest of five children. She started writing in seventh grade. She attended Carleton College in Minnesota, where she majored in Biology and managed to avoid taking any English courses at all. She began work on her first novel, Shadow Magic, just after graduating from college in 1974. She finished it five years later and started her second book at once, having become permanently hooked on writing by this time.

Patricia received her M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1977.
She worked for several years as a financial analyst and accountant, first with the Minnesota Hospital Association, then with B. Dalton Booksellers, and finally at the Dayton Hudson Corporation headquarters.

Patricia finished her first novel in late 1978. In January, 1980, Pamela Dean, Emma Bull, Will Shetterly, Steven Brust, Nate Bucklin, and Patricia Wrede -- all, at that point, hopeful but unpublished -- formed the writer's group that later became known as "The Scribblies." In April of 1980, Patricia's first novel sold to Ace Books. It came out at last in 1982, which is the year she met Lillian Stewart Carl (who introduced her to Lois McMaster Bujold by mail).

In 1985, shortly before the publication of her fifth book, she left the world of the gainfully employed to try winging it on her own.

Her interests include sewing, embroidery, desultory attempts at gardening, chocolate, not mowing the lawn, High Tea, and, of course, reading.
She is a vegetarian, and currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with her cats, Merlin, Brisen, and Nimue. She has no children, but as of this writing, she does have four nieces and four nephews ranging in age from seven months to twelve years old and in geographical location from Maine to Alabama.
She has published twelve and a half books:
Shadow Magic, Daughter of Witches, The Seven Towers, Talking to Dragons, The Harp of Imach Thyssel, Caught in Crystal, Snow White and Rose Red, Dealing with Dragons, Mairelon the Magician, Searching for Dragons, Calling on Dragons, The Raven Ring, and a collaboration with fellow Minneapolis author Caroline Stevermer, Sorcery and Cecelia, as well as a collection of short stories titled Book of Enchantments. She is also part of the Liavek shared-world anthology. (less)

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Wiscon and worldbuilding

Wiscon was fun but, for me, low-key – I caught a nasty cold the week before, and was still recovering, so I ended up napping a whole lot more than usual and skipping a lot of the parties. But I got to see a bunch of friends and I picked up a couple of books (and a slew of recommendations) and had fun and lots of good food. And the cold is a lot better, so I can’t even grouse that the napping wa...

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Average rating: 4.06 · 82,154 ratings · 5,119 reviews · 29 distinct works

	Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 19,199 ratings — published 1990 — 21 editions	My rating:
	Searching for Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #2) 4.21 avg rating — 11,872 ratings — published 1991 — 21 editions	My rating:
	Calling on Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #3) 4.17 avg rating — 9,815 ratings — published 1993 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Talking to Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #4) 4.12 avg rating — 8,667 ratings — published 1988 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot (Cecelia and Kate, #1) by Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer 4.03 avg rating — 5,703 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: [Boxed Set] 4.43 avg rating — 3,696 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Mairelon the Magician (Mairelon, #1) 4.00 avg rating — 2,739 ratings — published 1991 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Snow White And Rose Red 3.69 avg rating — 3,076 ratings — published 1989 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Thirteenth Child (Frontier Magic, #1) 3.67 avg rating — 2,827 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Grand Tour or The Purloined Coronation Regalia (Cecelia and Kate, #2) by Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer 3.60 avg rating — 2,482 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	My rating:

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Enchanted Forest Chronicles (4 books)
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4.17 avg rating — 49,532 ratings

Cecelia and Kate (3 books)
by Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer

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Mairelon (2 books)
by Patricia C. Wrede

4.01 avg rating — 6,054 ratings

Frontier Magic (3 books)
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Lyra (5 books)
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“I didn't ask what you'd said about it," the frog snapped. "I asked what you're going to do. Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.”
― Patricia C. Wrede, Dealing with Dragons

tags: actions-over-words , frog , funny

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“The efficiency of the cleaning solution in liquefying wizards suggested the operation of an antithetical principal,which-"
"Did you have to get him started?" Cimorene asked reproachfully.”
― Patricia C. Wrede, Calling on Dragons

tags: tolerance , verbosity

49 people liked it

“Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nodcocks!”
― Patricia C. Wrede, Magician's Ward

tags: epithet

36 people liked it

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