J. Patrick Rick

Once upon a time, J. Patrick (Pat) Rick was a defendant before a Grand Jury, a monk, thought to be a criminal but a hemophiliac forever.

He's best known for portraying a certain 42nd U.S. President in film and television. At Hollywood’s ‘Reel Awards’ he was recognized for his acting work as Bill Clinton. This Beaumont, Texas native, now living in Austin, wrote THE ABBEY & ME. Prior to the book, he produced and narrated it's companion short documentary, THE NOVITIATE. It is the journey and plight of a contemporary monastery and dissident Native Americans. This film won Best of Show at the ‘Real to Reel Film and Video Festival.’ The Abbey & Me was a Notable Memoir Winner in the ‘Shelf Unbound Writing Competition’.

For Pat’s next non-fiction project, he edited and published, I DON'T BUY GREEN BANANAS, an autobiography of a man having had three human hearts. Rick's intriguing memoir and personal narrative, EXPUNGED: Confessions of a Doppelgänger, Counterfeit-Bill, was his latest book. More recently, Pat released, THAT PURLOINED DIARY: An Unsettling Case Study of Exorcism. Just when you thought it had gone away, read his factual account inspiring the book and movie, THE EXORCIST. Rick says, "With nonfiction like this, who needs fiction?"