City Libraries, City of Gold Coast

James Patterson, the stories of my life, [written and] read by James Patterson

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autobiography

James Patterson

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[written and] read by James Patterson

the stories of my life

James Patterson's best stories are the stories of his life. He worked at a psychiatric hospital when he was younger where he met the singer James Taylor and the poet Robert Lowell. Both were patients. He was at Woodstock and was also an usher at the Fillmore East. When he was just 37, he became the CEO of advertising agency J. Walter Thompson North America. He wrote the ad jingle, 'I'm a Toys ''R'' Us Kid'. He once watched Norman Mailer and James Baldwin square off to fight. He's played golf with three US presidents and has nine holes-in-one. Dolly Parton once sang Happy Birthday to him over the phone. She calls him Jimmy James. James says, 'I always wanted to write the kind of novel that is read and re-read so many times the binding breaks, and the book literally falls apart, pages scattered in the wind. I'm still working on that one.'

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