Patricia Buckley Bozell

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Patricia Lee Buckley Bozell (April 23, 1927 July 12, 2008) was an American author. She helped to establish and served as managing editor of Triumph , a Catholic opinion journal that was published for nearly a decade. A native of New York City and a graduate of Vassar College, she was a freelance editor at Regnery Publishing, National Review , The American Spectator , and Communio: International Catholic Review .

A daughter of William Frank Buckley Sr., and Aloise Steiner Buckley, Patricia Buckley was the wife of L. Brent Bozell Jr. (son of Bozell Worldwide co-founder Leo Brent Bozell), the mother of Media Research Center founder L. Brent Bozell III, and a sister of conservative author William F. Buckley Jr. as well as United States Senator James L. Buckley. [1] She and her husband were also the godparents to novelist Tristan Egolf. [2]

Bozell is known for attempting to slap Ti-Grace Atkinson at the auditorium of the Catholic University of America after a speech by Atkinson on the virginity of the Virgin Mary, which Bozell described as "an illiterate harangue against the mystical body of Christ". [3]

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References

  1. "Patricia Bozell, 81, Conservative Editor, Matriarch". The New York Sun. July 15, 2008. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
  2. Beam, Alex (June 30, 2005). "A tragic, and familial, ending". The Boston Globe. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
  3. Bernstein, Adam (July 15, 2008). "Patricia Buckley Bozell, 81; Activist Founded a Catholic Opinion Journal". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 11, 2020.