Charles Patterson

After I grew up in New Britain, Connecticut (or at least tried to) and went to Amherst College in Massachusetts, I moved to New York to pursue my doctoral studies at Columbia University. I have lived in New York City more or less ever since.

In New York I've been deeply involved with books in one way or another--reading, writing, editing, reviewing, and teaching literature and writing.

My most recent book is Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust, published by Lantern Books, New York in 2002 (now in its third printing). For more information click on "Eternal Treblinka" in the Links column to the right.

ET has now been translated into Hebrew, German, Italian, Polish, Czech, Croatian, Japanese, French, Spanish, and Serbian, with a Portuguese edition scheduled for publication in 2008. Russian, Slovenian, and Arabic translations are also underway.

My first novel (Last Rites) was published in late 2007, and I expect my second (My Weekend in Hell) to be published in 2009.

While spending a quarter of a century trying to get published (and in some cases succeeding), I also did editing and consulting to help others get "the book inside them" out and published.

I've been a member of The Authors Guild, PEN , and the National Writers Union for 20 years.

ETERNAL TREBLINKA shows the common roots of Nazi genocide and modern society's enslavement and slaughter of animals. The title comes from Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, who wrote, "For the animals it is an eternal Treblinka." The book concludes with profiles of Jewish and German animal activists with links to the Holocaust.