Talk:Patrick Jennings (writer)

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This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because... (your reason here) --D.B.Chace (talk) 00:26, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Patrick Jennings is a popular author whose books are being made into films and he has been interviewed by independent sources such as the Peninsula Daily News and the Seattle PI. His book We Can't All Be Rattle Snakes and Bat and Rat have had favoarable reviews in the New York Times.

Peninsula Daily News October 17th 2013 WEEKEND: Children's book author to hold free talk in Port Townsend

http://article.wn.com/view/2014/05/15/Smithsonian_Keynote_at_IMMERSION_2014_in_Los_Angeles_This_Ju/

Peninsula Daily News June 30th 2012 PENINSULA PROFILE: Children's author encourages students to find their muses http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20120701/NEWS/307019986/peninsula-profile-childrens-author-encourages-students-to-find

Seattle PI June 7th 2009 Students Interview Author Patrick Jennings (Part 1)

I don't know that Jennings is notable in our sense; that is, whether a page for him is appropriate.

I added and partly completed the 2 wikiproject banners above and the entire page footer, as for all children's writers whom I find unidentified.

--P64 (talk) 20:27, 18 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Birth place[edit]

Library of Congress says Port Townsend, Washington, citing Cataloging in Publication data.[1] Perhaps the publisher provided his residence by mistake or by laziness. A profile in the Washington state Peninsula Daily News calls him "a kid from Crown Point, Indiana, who found his way to Port Townsend", Washingon.[2] ISFDB gives Gary, Indiana.[3] Goodreads says Gary, Indiana, but may be ISFDB's source.[4] He says he grew up in a small town in Indiana[5] --which is consistent both with kid from Crown Point and birthplace Gary.

--P64 (talk) 20:36, 18 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]