Patricia mccormick author biography sample

To research SOLD, I traveled to India and Nepal, where I interviewed the women of Calcutta’s red-light district and girls who have been rescued from the sex trade. Here are answers to some questions frequently asked about the book.

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What inspired you to tell this story?

In the past few years, the trafficking of children has gotten a good deal of media attention.

But eight years years ago, when I had a chance meeting with a photographer who was working undercover to document the presence of young girls in brothels overseas, I knew immediately that I wanted to do what no one else had done so far: tell this heartbreaking story from the point of view of one individual girl.

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I believe that young adults want to know what’s happening to their peers on the other side of the world, but that media accounts, by their very nature, cannot usually go beyond the surface.

To me, there is nothing more powerful— or permanent—than the impact of a book. Here’s a li