Award-winning Author Patty McCormick Speaks at All School Meeting
Matt Critchlow '09 gave his mother, author Patty McCormick, today's guest speaker at All School Meeting, a wonderful introduction:
"Hey everybody I’m Matt Critchlow a postgraduate here at KUA. I’m here to introduce the acclaimed author Patricia McCormick, who also happens to be my mommy. While a lot of people would have stopped after giving birth to the most handsome and intelligent child to grace this world - Patricia McCormick wasn’t anywhere near done. My mom has written three young adult novels. Cut, her first book, about a girl who cuts herself, came out in 2000 to much fanfare. In 2005, she published My Brother's Keeper, a book about a boy who watches his older brother slip into drug addiction. In 2006, she came out with her biggest hit, Sold, the story of a young girl sold into sexual slavery along the Himalayan mountains- by her father.
Real uplifting stuff. My mom was originally an investigative journalist and her experience in that field is reflected in her work. She spent two months in India, visiting brothels and the women who worked there, while writing Sold. She just finished writing her next novel, about soldiers in Iraq, and only a week ago she came back from Cambodia, where she researched the harrowing experience of child soldiers in the Khmer Rouge. My mom is always writing about some new, incredibly depressing topic. One time when she had just finished relating one of her new projects to me, I stopped and said, “Mom, do you just Google the word sad?”
But seriously, she is one very talented, and very acclaimed author and I am really proud to introduce my mom, Patricia McCormick."
Patty McCormick went on to share a slide presentation of images she had used for references for Sold, and gave the KUA community poignant insights into her experiences while researching for the novel in Nepal and India. She shared the manner in which so many young women enter into sexual slavery, and the heartbreaking lies that lead their families to sell them.
A lively question and answer period followed, and the entire audience expressed their appreciation to Ms. McCormick with a standing ovation.
Ms.McCormick also worked with several classes during her day at KUA.
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"Hey everybody I’m Matt Critchlow a postgraduate here at KUA. I’m here to introduce the acclaimed author Patricia McCormick, who also happens to be my mommy. While a lot of people would have stopped after giving birth to the most handsome and intelligent child to grace this world - Patricia McCormick wasn’t anywhere near done. My mom has written three young adult novels. Cut, her first book, about a girl who cuts herself, came out in 2000 to much fanfare. In 2005, she published My Brother's Keeper, a book about a boy who watches his older brother slip into drug addiction. In 2006, she came out with her biggest hit, Sold, the story of a young girl sold into sexual slavery along the Himalayan mountains- by her father.
Real uplifting stuff. My mom was originally an investigative journalist and her experience in that field is reflected in her work. She spent two months in India, visiting brothels and the women who worked there, while writing Sold. She just finished writing her next novel, about soldiers in Iraq, and only a week ago she came back from Cambodia, where she researched the harrowing experience of child soldiers in the Khmer Rouge. My mom is always writing about some new, incredibly depressing topic. One time when she had just finished relating one of her new projects to me, I stopped and said, “Mom, do you just Google the word sad?”
But seriously, she is one very talented, and very acclaimed author and I am really proud to introduce my mom, Patricia McCormick."
Patty McCormick went on to share a slide presentation of images she had used for references for Sold, and gave the KUA community poignant insights into her experiences while researching for the novel in Nepal and India. She shared the manner in which so many young women enter into sexual slavery, and the heartbreaking lies that lead their families to sell them.
A lively question and answer period followed, and the entire audience expressed their appreciation to Ms. McCormick with a standing ovation.
Ms.McCormick also worked with several classes during her day at KUA.
