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Martha French Patterson
Martha French Patterson is the author of The Backyard Bomber of Pacific Palisades. Born in Ohio, she came to California in 1921 and to Pacific Palisades in early 1925. She marri...view more
Martha French Patterson is the author of The Backyard Bomber of Pacific Palisades. Born in Ohio, she came to California in 1921 and to Pacific Palisades in early 1925. She married Charles Everett Patterson in 1938 and raised three children. Today she is a member of the Pacific Palisades Historical Society, the Potrero Canyon Citizen Advisory Committee, the P.E.O. Sisterhood, the longest-time member of the Community Methodist Church, and the longest-time resident of Pacific Palisades.
Martha’s daughter, Sally Patterson Tubach, is the author of Memoirs of a Terrorist and co-author of An Uncommon Friendship: From Opposite Sides of the Holocaust. She has a doctorate in German Literature from the University of California at Berkeley and an honorary doctorate from the Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III. She has two stepchildren and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, a writer and UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus
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