Occupation Novelist Role Writer Name Patricia Gaffney | Period 1989 - present Nationality American | |
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Genre Romance, Women's fiction Education Walter Johnson High School, Marymount College, Tarrytown People also search for J. R. Sansevere, Erica Farber, R. R. Walters, W. D. Pereira Books The saving graces, To Have and To Hold, Crooked Hearts, The goodbye summer, Flight Lessons | ||
Meet the author patricia gaffney
Patricia Gaffney is an American writer of romance novels and women's fiction novels.
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Biography
Patricia Gaffney was born on December 27, 1956 in Tampa, Florida, United States. She is the daughter of Joem and Jim Gaffney. She and her brother, Mike, grew up in Bethesda, Maryland.
Patricia graduated from Walter Johnson High School. She earned a bachelor's degree in English and Philosophy from Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York, and also studied literature at the Royal Holloway College at the University of London, at George Washington University, and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
After college, Gaffney taught high school English for a year before pursuing a career as a freelance court reporter for the next five years. In 1984, Gafffney was diagonsed with breast cancer, which prompted her to live out her dream of writing books and living in the country. In 1986, she and her husband moved to rural Pennsylvania, where they continue to live.