BOA Authors & Poets

William Patrick

William B. Patrick is an author who works in many genres, from screenplays to nonfiction. His most recent book, We Didn't Come Here for This, a Memoir in Poetry, was published by BOA Editions in February, 1999. An earlier collection of Mr. Patrick's poetry, These Upraised Hands , a book of narrative poems and dramatic monologues, was published by BOA Editions in 1995. One of the poems in that volume, "Kindergarten Day," was featured on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac, on National Public Radio. Mr. Patrick's novel, Roxa: Voices of the Culver Family , which appeared in 1989, won the 1990 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for best first work of fiction.

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