Patricia Vaccarino

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Patricia Vaccarino
Born Yonkers, New York, United States
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
Alma materB.A. English and Political Science
University of Rhode Island,
University of Puget Sound School of Law
Genrefiction, non-fiction
Years active2009–present
Website
patriciavaccarino.com

Patricia Vaccarino is an American writer. She has published four novels as well as three nonfiction books based on her experience in public relations.

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Career

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). [1]

Vaccarino founded the media company PR for People®, which spun off from Xanthus Communications in 2010. She continues to maintain PR for People as a pro-bono enterprise. [2]

Vaccarino's nonfiction work, The Death of a Library: An American Tragedy, is about the circumstances that led to the demolition of the Yonkers Carnegie Library in 1982. [3] [4]

The first book in the Yonkers trilogy, YONKERS Yonkers!: A Story of Race and Redemption, explores the racial past of Yonkers, [5] the Vietnam War, the Woodstock Music Festival, and drug use endemic to Yonkers youth in 1970. [6] The second book in the Yonkers trilogy, The Heart of Yonkers, tackles coming of age pangs. [7]

The third book in the Yonkers trilogy, So Not Yonkers, wrestles with the classism, racism and sexism that is baked into American society. [8] So Not Yonkers is realistic fiction about the working class that examines a grim reality—the world is rigged against everyone who is either poor or from the working class. [9]

Her book Steps: My not-so-secret life as an adult dancer and how it impacts my lifeand business was inspired by learning ballet. [10] [2]

She has written essays to demystify the process of how the news gets made, [11] which ultimately led to the publication of her book American Spin. [12] This nonfiction work examines the history of spin from Julius Caesar, the young Caesar Augustus, and Queen Elizabeth I of England to present day media stars like Kim Kardashian, Lee Radziwill, and the public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy. [13]

Her essay When the Bronx Looks Like Paris drew criticism from Bronx community activists, including Bronx public officials, who claimed she was depicting a negative portrayal of the Bronx. [14]

Bibliography

Novels

Non-fiction

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  5. Garcia, Ernie (June 23, 2018). "Yonkers' racial past explored in young-adult novel". Lohud.
  6. Fogle De Souza, Rachel (January 24, 2018). "'Yonkers Yonkers!': Patricia Vaccarino's New Book Explores Racial Tensions and Friendship during Woodstock". Book Trib.
  7. Lloyd McMichael, Barbara (July 2020). "The Bookmonger: 'Heart of Yonkers' tackles coming-of-age pangs". Our Coast Weekend Arts & Entertainment Weekly. Our Coast Magazine.
  8. McMichael, Barbara Lloyd (May 17, 2023). "Bookmonger: Manzanita author wraps up Yonkers trilogy". Discover Our Coast.
  9. "The Trust Between the Mainstream Media and the Working Class is Broken". Yonkers Times. May 27, 2023.
  10. "STEPS by Patricia Vaccarino". Kirkus Reviews.
  11. "Patricia Vaccarino: Public relations without spin". Queen Anne & Magnolia News. Archived from the original on January 28, 2022.
  12. "Bookmonger: The 21st century landscape of American business". Bellingham Herald.
  13. BWW News Desk. "Patricia Vaccarino Pens AMERICAN SPIN". BroadwayWorld.com.
  14. "When the Bronx looks like Paris". Ground Report. October 13, 2013.