Literary Birthday – 18 May – Patrick Dennis

Patrick Dennis was born 18 May 1921, and died 6 November 1976.

Three Quotes

1. I write in the first person, but it is all fictional. The public assumes that what seems fictional is fact; so the way for me to be inventive is to seem factual but be fictional.
2. I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.
3. …you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation.

Patrick Dennis, born Edward Everett Tanner III, was an American author whose novel Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade was one of the best-selling American books of the 20th century.

Source for Image

Fair use to illustrate author

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Patrick_Dennis_photo.jpg

by Amanda Patterson

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