[1] Instigated by her mother, she and her two younger brothers, Richard and John, wrote a best-selling book, Around the World in Eleven Years (1936) when Patience was 12.
In later years the family and Herschel Brickell, literary editor of The New York Post, said that Patience had authored the books.
[1][2] George T. Bye, the literary agent of Frank Buck and Eleanor Roosevelt, represented Patience and her brothers.
A family anecdote, which Patience liked to recount, describes her 21st birthday party, where she met by chance a neighbor, Bette Davis.
For the last half century of her life, she lived in Marin and Shasta Counties, California, where she worked as a church secretary and as an assistant to authors.