Patricia McCormick (author)

Patricia McCormick (born May 23, 1956) is an American journalist and writer of realistic fiction for young adults.

McCormick is a frequent contributor to several magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, Ladies Home Journal, Town & Country, and Reader's Digest.

To write her novel Sold, McCormick traveled to the brothels of India and the mountain villages of Nepal to interview survivors of sex trafficking.

For her book Never Fall Down, she spent a month in Cambodia with a survivor of the Khmer Rouge Genocide.

[2] She has worked with Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who was shot by the Taliban for standing up for her right to an education.