Pat McNees

Pat McNees was an editor in book publishing (Harper & Row and then Fawcett) and a freelance journalist (Washington Post and others) before she began writing biographies and organizational histories and helping people tell their life or family stories. At the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD, she offers the workshop My Life, One Story at a Time. She has written histories of the NIH Clinical Center (the largest medical research hospital in the country: Building Ten at Fifty: 50 Years of Clinical Research at the NIH Clinical Center (for which she received several awards), the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO: The First Fifty Years), Crown Equipment (By Design: The Story of Crown Equipment Corporation), and Changing Times, Changing Minds, 100 Years of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She has edited several anthologies, including Familiar Faces, Contemporary Latin American Short Stories, Dying: A Book of Comfort, and (with Paula Stallings Yost) My Words Are Gonna Linger: The Art of Personal History. She has edited dozens of books, articles, and reports written by others and has written many summaries of reports for the World Bank and other organizations.