James Patterson on writing a novel with a president

Posted on May 1, 2021 at 4:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

You may know author James Patterson as a fixture on bestseller lists or as one of the most prolific writers of the current era.

Those are, of course, true statements.

But in a recent interview with the Guardian, the author who can count a former president among his collaborators showed a clear amount of pride in some other accomplishments and goals, instead.

See what truly motivates Patterson (and, yes, what it was like to co-write with Bill Clinton) in his conversation with the Guardian’s Richard Luscombe.