Patterson, Lorne

Lorne Patterson is the first-born son of missionary parents; his father, by profession, is an author, his mother a doctor. Out of this heritage came a medical researcher, who writes as part of his job but also for pleasure. Patterson lives with his wife and daughter in the Republic of Ireland. His influences include the King James Bible, Milton, Coleridge, Wilde, Yeats, Wilfred Owen, Anna Akhmatova, T