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Patience Abbe (July 22, 1924 – March 17, 2012) was a best-selling author as a child. 〔"Patience Abbe, Chronicler of Her Childhood Travels, Dies at 87" ''New York Times'', March 31, 2012 ()〕〔"Writer Patience Abbe, 87, of Redding dies Best-seller recounted life in prewar Europe" ''The Record Searchlight'', March 18, 2012 ()〕 ==Biography== The daughter of James Abbe, a photographer, and Polly Shorrick, a Ziegfeld girl, Patience Abbe was born in Paris to her globetrotting parents.〔 Instigated by her mother, she and her two younger brothers, Richard and John, wrote a best-selling book, "Around the World in Eleven Years" (1936) when Patience was 12. It was followed by "Of All Places!" (1937) and "No Place Like Home" (1940). In later years, the family and Herschel Brickell, literary editor of The New York Post, said that Patience had authored the books.〔〔 George T. Bye, the Literary agent of Frank Buck and Eleanor Roosevelt, represented Patience and her brothers.〔George T. Bye, 70, Literary Agent; 'Guide' and 'Wet Nurse' for Many Authors Dies—Rose to Fame on 'Stunt' Books. New York Times. November 25, 1957, Monday. Page 31〕 The fame of the books led the family to Hollywood, where the Abbes became part of Hollywood society.〔〔 Patience gave up writing books in her teens and the family's fame declined. A family anecdote, which Patience liked to recount, describes her 21st birthday party, where she met by chance a neighbor, Bette Davis. "Patience Abbe!" Davis exclaimed. "I always wondered what happened to you!"〔〔 However, in 2012, Patience's niece Abbe Moyer reported that Patience had just finished an autobiography, "I, Patience," which the family hopes to publish.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Patience Abbe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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