Patricia Beard

PATRICIA BEARD is the author of eleven non-fiction books. A Certain Summer is her first novel. She has written hundreds of nationally-published magazine articles; and is a former features and contributing editor at Town & Country, contributing editor at ELLE, and style features editor at Mirabella magazine. She and her husband live in Dutchess County, NY, with their two dogs. Summer places have always been a special part of Patricia Beard's life. She spent her early years at a small multi...See more

PATRICIA BEARD is the author of eleven non-fiction books. A Certain Summer is her first novel. She has written hundreds of nationally-published magazine articles; and is a former features and contributing editor at Town & Country, contributing editor at ELLE, and style features editor at Mirabella magazine. She and her husband live in Dutchess County, NY, with their two dogs. Summer places have always been a special part of Patricia Beard's life. She spent her early years at a small multi-family lakeside compound in Maine; and A Certain Summer is based on an island where Beard enjoyed the kind of simple life she describes here when her own children were small. Beard's indelible memories inspired her to write A Certain Summer. The book celebrates places where the members of the community treat each other with decency, respect and friendship, despite currents of discord and intrigue; and through tragedy and danger. patriciabeardbooks.com See less