“It’s even harder for older writers,” Patterson laments.
“You don’t meet many 52-year-old white males.”
“What’s that all about?”
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“Can you get a job?
It’s even harder for older writers.
You don’t meet many 52-year-old white males.”
“I just wanted to create a character who happened to be Black,” Patterson said.
“I would not have tried to write a serious saga about a Black family.
It’s different in a detective story because plot is so important.”
Allen’s adoptive daughter,Dylan Farrow, has accused him of child sexual abuse, allegations Allen denied.
“I hated that,” Patterson said of the Little, Brown protest.
“He has the right to tell his own story.”
EW has reached out to Patterson’s rep for comment on the controversial interview.
The thriller debuted at No.
1 on theNew York Times’best-seller list that month and will beadapted into a film starring and producedby Parton.
