Pat McNees:  

I left Narbonne, got a BA in English at UCLA, did two years graduate work at Stanford and taught Freshman English there, then accepted a ride on a single-engine plane (Bonanza) to New York City, where for eight years I worked in book publishing. After the birth of my daughter, Romy, I became a freelance writer-editor, so I could work at home -- and eventually moved to Washington,D.C., where I wrote freelance for the Washington Post, wrote executive summaries and edited reports for the World Bank and similar organizations, and published a couple of books. In 1990 I started helping people write their memoirs and began writing histories of organizations: including the Young Presidents' Orga...Expand for more