Patricia Anthony

Patricia Marie Anthony (March 29, 1947 – July 2, 2013) was an American fiction and specualtive fiction author. She lived in Portugal and Brazil during the 1970s and later drew upon that experience for several of her novels. She taught creative writing at SMU in Dallas, Texas in the late 1990's and led a weekly writers' group at her home.

She published for Harcourt Brace and Ace throughout the 1990s, with novels such as BROTHER TERMITE (which was optioned by film producer James Cameron), COLD ALLIES, GOD'S FIRES, FLANDERS (recently voted as one of the top war novels of all time), HAPPY POLICEMAN, CRADLE OF SPLENDOR and CONSCIENCE OF THE BEAGLE. Her short fiction appeared in a number of magazines, including Aboriginal SF, Weird Tales, and many others, and Ace also issued a collection of her short fiction called EATING MEMORIES.

Her last published novel, FLANDERS, was named a New York Times Notable Book. The American Library Association chose FLANDERS as one of its 5 recommended books of the year in 1999 (the list included fiction, non-fiction and biography).

Patricia Anthony has several unpublished novels that are currently being reviewed for publication.