{"name": "Richard North Patterson", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Richard North Patterson (in Berkeley, California) is an American fiction writer and political commentator. He is a 1971 graduate of the Case Western Reserve University\u2019s School of Law, and a recipient of that University\u2019s President\u2019s Award for Distinguished Alumni and its President\u2019s Award for Excellence. He has served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Ohio; a trial attorney for the Securities & Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C.; and was the SEC\u2019s liaison to the Watergate Special Prosecutor. - Wikipedia\r\n\r\nHe has written more than 20 novels, with the most recent one, Eden In Winter (2014), marking his retirement as a novelist."}, "personal_name": "Richard North Patterson", "alternate_names": ["RICHARD NORTH PATTERSON"], "photos": [7396851], "birth_date": "February 22, 1947", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "remote_ids": {"viaf": "85314580", "wikidata": "Q1678883", "isni": "0000000112609495", "goodreads": "38537", "lc_naf": "n78093612"}, "key": "/authors/OL23801A", "latest_revision": 8, "revision": 8, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-07-31T20:29:03.597807"}}