James Patterson by James Patterson

Damn near addictive. I loved it . . . that Patterson guy can write! Ron Howard I felt I was interviewing James Patterson under the highest permissible does of sodium pentothal, the truth serum, for hoursand he spilled the whole story of his truly astonishing life.BobWoodwardHow did a kid whose dad lived in the poorhouse become the most successful storyteller in the world? On the morning he was born, he nearly died. His dad grew up in the Pogey the Newburgh, New York, poorhouse. He worked at a mental hospital in Massachusetts, where he met the singer James Taylor and the poet Robert Lowell. While he toiled in advertising hell, James wrote the ad jingle line Im a Toys R Us Kid. He once watched James Baldwin and Norman Mailer square off to trade punches at a party. Hes...