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Community College
by Patricia D. Johnston
$14.99, paper
978-1-63534-629-9
2018
Patricia Dunkel Johnston graduated from Wellesley College with a chemistry degree and has completed 23 hours of advanced biochemistry from Purdue University. ‘She has a Master’s degree in English and Dramatic Arts from Columbia University, and she taught Shakespeare, play writing and other dramatic literature courses at the college of the University of the North Carolina School of the Arts for twenty years.
Her novel, Forever and a Day, was published by Avalon Press. Her murder mystery novels, Real Estate is for Blood and Murder in the Cloning Place are published on Kindle. She has had play and /or musical productions in Wellesley, Massachusetts; Rochester, New York; Morristown, New Jersey; Greensboro, North Carolina, and a reading by professional actors in New York City. Her two-act play, I’m Coming Home, Rejoicing, was a finalist for the Robert J. Pickering Award for Playwriting Excellence. Her three-act play, Offing Ulysses, had a reading at Romulus Linney’s playwriting seminar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her musical, a rather outrageous rendition–yet still religious–of Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, was written in collaboration with Rosalind MacEnulty.
She has just finished an historical novel, Shadow of the Crown, which proposes that the playwright, Christopher Marlowe, was the illegitimate son of Queen Elizabeth.
While she has lived most of her life in Winston–Salem, North Carolina, she now lives in York, Pennsylvania. She is the mother of four very talented children.
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