Patricia McAlexander

Patricia McAlexander is from upstate New York. She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of New York at Albany, a master’s from Columbia University, and a doctorate from The University of Wisconsin, Madison, all in English. It was in Madison that she met her Southerner husband, a fellow graduate student. They then made Athens, Georgia their home, raised their son there, and taught at the University of Georgia. After retiring, Patricia has had more time to garden and travel while renewing her interests in photography, history, and, most of all, writing fiction. Her first romantic suspense novel, Stranger in the Storm, is set in upstate New York, her second and third, Shadows of Doubt and The Student in Classroom 6, in Athens, Georgia; and her fourth, The Last Golden Isle, on a fictional version of one of Georgia's beautiful coastal islands. Patricia's most recent novel, Second Wives, combines the romance and psychological complexity of her previous works with family lore and genealogical research to create her first novel of historical fiction.