Talk:Richard North Patterson

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Cut and Paste Bio

This is a direct cut/paste job from Patterson's web site with the addition of 'Mr' before each mention of his name. Patterson's Web site

This is certainly not up to Wikipedia article standards

Cannonmc (talk) 09:08, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Patterson's bio page is now here. Davemck (talk) 20:30, 14 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

How was Patterson able to dodge the draft and avoid Vietnam? Grad school deferments were abolished in 1967, and I was drafted out of law school in 1968, so it was difficult to be in law school during that era. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.44.233.118 (talk) 21:42, 27 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]