Patricia Raybon discusses the influence of her 3rd-grade teacher who recognized her writing skills and encouraged her to become a writer. Her passion for writing led her to become an award-winning author and a writer of faith by day and mystery by night.
"Patricia Raybon is an author and journalist whose personal essays on faith, family and race have been published in The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, USA Today, USA Weekend, Chicago Tribune, The Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, the Charles Stanley Ministries In Touch Magazine and featured on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition.[1] She retired as an associate professor of journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2006." (Source Wikipedia)