Patricia C. Wrede
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March 27, 1953
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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 Corpo...more
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""The effiancy of the cleaning soulution 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)
"Did you have to get him started?" Cimorene asked reproachfully."
— Patricia C. Wrede (Calling on Dragons)
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"Well,of all the bacon-brained,sapskulled,squirish,buffle-headed nodcocks!" -Kim"
— Patricia C. Wrede (Magician's Ward)
— Patricia C. Wrede (Magician's Ward)
"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)
— Patricia C. Wrede (Dealing with Dragons)
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