He's incredibly -- and somewhat bafflingly -- popular, and in Vanity Fair Todd S. Purdum profiles The Henry Ford of Books.
An interesting background and path -- and apparently: "success may have mellowed Patterson somewhat":
An interesting background and path -- and apparently: "success may have mellowed Patterson somewhat":
"I always thought he was a total dick," one non-Little, Brown executive told me. "I think that's not fair now."