Patt Morrison is a journalist, author, and radio-television personality based in Los Angeles and Southern California.

[1] Morrison is a writer for the Los Angeles Times, with the weekly 'Patt Morrison Asks' column,[2] and received the Joseph M. Quinn award in 2000 from the Los Angeles Press Club for lifetime achievement.

She also founded the PBS daily local news 'Life & Times' public television program, and co-hosted it on KCET-TV from 1993 to 2001.

[7] Originally from Utica, Ohio, Morrison is a 1974 cum laude graduate of Occidental College,[1][8] and was named its 'Alumnus of the year' in 1995.

[10] Patt Morrison is a fiction and non-fiction author, and in addition to numerous magazine articles [1] has written: