Patricia Vaccarino
Author of essays, articles and booksPatricia Vaccarino is an accomplished writer who has written award-winning film scripts, press materials, articles, essays, speeches, web content, marketing collateral, and nine books.
Biography
Patricia Vaccarino (born October 17, 1956) is an American writer. She has published four novels and three nonfiction books based on her expertise in public relations. Ms. Vaccarino grew up in Yonkers, New York. At fourteen she began writing a novel about Yonkers that eventually became her first literary work, YONKERS Yonkers!: A story of race and redemption Her first Yonkers book is about growing up in Yonkers during the 1960s and 1970s. The Heart of Yonkers was published April, 2020.The Yonkers Carnegie Library is featured in both fictional works. Ms.Vaccarino has written award-winning film scripts, press materials, content, books, essays and articles. She is currently writing a collection of essays NOTES FROM THE WORKING-CLASS. In addition to YONKERS Yonkers!: A story of race and redemption and The Heart of Yonkers, a third Yonkers Book is in development. She frequently writes about libraries and has written a monograph about the circumstances that led to the razing of the Yonkers Carnegie Library in 1982.
Ms. Vaccarino graduated from the University of Rhode Island, and also has advanced education from the University of Puget Sound School of Law (now Seattle University School of Law). Patricia Vaccarino owned the P.R. firm Xanthus Communications LLC, and founded the internet company, PR for People®, where people share their news. She retired from Public Relations in 2017. She divides her time between homes in downtown Seattle and the north coast of Oregon.
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Galleries
Events
Articles on PR for People
Against All Odds
Time Marches On
Everyone Loves a Yonkers Girl
Book Review: An Elephant in my Kitchen
Press Coverage
12/19/2022 - 3:00pm | BOOK REVIEW | Nick Licata: ‘Student Power, Democracy and Revolution in the Sixties’ |
01/20/2022 - 1:45pm | Bookmonger: 'Cut by Cut' offers a twisting take on a fictional Northwest filmmaking scene |
11/20/2021 - 8:30am | Mayor Nicola Smith Reflects on her time as mayor of Lynnwood |
06/21/2021 - 3:00am | Patricia Vaccarino Interviewed Westchester Eye On the Radio |
06/18/2021 - 5:00pm | Yonkers Politics Exposed in New Book |
Books
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The Death of a Library: An American Tragedy 2021 Modus Operandi Books More Info |
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Cut By Cut 2021 More Info |
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Mayor Nicola Smith Grateful Steward 2021 North Star Publishing More Info |
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The Heart of Yonkers 2020 Modus Operandi Books More Info |
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YONKERS Yonkers! 2018 Modus Operandi Books More Info |
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American Spin 2015 Xanthus Communications More Info |
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One Small Murder 2012 Six Roses Press More Info |
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PR for People® STEPS 2011 Cedar Forge Press More Info |
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PR for People 2010 Book Publishers Network More Info |