Why did James Patterson become a writer? “I was a lonely kid in the woods,” he said. “Nothing against Newburgh, but it was: get me out of here, get me out of this life.”
The writer James Patterson is not the type of rich person who refuses to talk about being rich. “Here’s the wages of sin,” he said the other day, sitting on the patio of his estate in Briarcliff, in a long-sleeved shirt and boat shoes. He smirked a little. It was a pleasant late morning in late spring. Sunshine, birds. He head-nodded toward the Hudson. “I don’t think about success,” he went on. “I have nothing against people who want to drive Rolls-Royces. It just doesn’t interest me.
Patterson, who is seventy-five, was resting up for a thirteen-city book tour for his autobiography, which he’d begun as aproject: “James Patterson,” by James Patterson. The book consists of scores of anecdotes, a page or two long—“dirt poor” childhood, first kiss , advertising career , hobnobbing with famous folk—sprinkled with the odd sales pitch. He starts a chapter by talking about a forthcoming book of his wife’s: “It will be published in the spring of 2023. Don’t miss it.
Why did he become a writer? “I was a lonely kid in the woods,” he said. “I just would tell stories to myself. Cowboy stories and war stories and fantasies. Nothing against Newburgh”—his home town, on the other side of the river—“but it was: get me out of here, get me out of this life, get me out of the woods. I found out that the guy who’d owned thewas a Patterson. I had this fantasy that he would show up in a big limousine and say, ‘I’m your father,’ and take me to New York.
His own father had grown up in Newburgh’s poorhouse. “There was a little bit of a jealousy between us,” Patterson said. Patterson the elder managed to graduate college but wound up in working-class jobs. “Bright guy, driving a bread truck,” Patterson said. “And then he went and he sold insurance for Prudential, pretty much door to door. He just didn’t have confidence. Almost sounds like ‘Portnoy’s.
Patterson padded into the kitchen. Sue had laid out a spread: handpicked mangoes from their house in West Palm Beach, hummus, homemade cornbread. “It’s a tradition that started with Clinton,” Patterson said. When he and Clinton co-wrote “The President Is Missing,” they did some press interviews at Patterson’s house. “We had fruit and cornbread,” Patterson said. “Clinton stood here for an hour and a half.
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