Patricia Wrede
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Patricia Collins Wrede (born March 27, 1953) is an American fantasy writer.
In NPR's 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels list, she is best known for her Enchanted Forest Chronicles series for young adults.
Personal life
She was born in Chicago, Illinois, on March 27, 1953, to David Merrill and Monica Marie Collins. She is the eldest of five siblings. As an infant, Wrede was a voracious reader and recalls, "I don't think I ever read anything more than once." She loved to tell stories to her children and friends and started writing in the seventh grade with a lot of support from her parents. Patricia and James Wrede were married in 1976; they divorced in 1991. She is a vegetarian and lives in the Twin Cities with two cats.
Career
Wrede graduated from Carleton College in 1974 with a BA in biology and obtained an MBA from the University of Minnesota in 1977. She finished her first book in 1978 while working as an accountant and financial analyst. She was a founding member of The Scribblies, along with Pamela Dean, Emma Bull, Will Shetterly, Steven Brust and Nate Bucklin, in January 1980, "to which [she] belonged for five extremely productive years." She sold her first book to Ace in April 1980 and it was published in 1982. In the fall of 1980, Wrede met Lillian Stewart Carl, who introduced her to Lois McMaster Bujold. In 1985, shortly before her fifth book was published, she became a full-time writer. She is a member of the Liavek shared-world anthology.
In 2009, Wrede donated her archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University.
Lois McMaster Bujold credits the support of Wrede and Lillian Stewart Carl for allowing Bujold to finish her first novel: "These friendships were lifelines in every sense".