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Specialty Subjects : Biography, memoir, personal history, family histories, organizational histories

Book Credits : Building Ten at Fifty: 50 Years of Clinical Research at the NIH Clinical Center Download the 148-page book here, free: https://cc.nih.gov/about/_pdf/Building-10-At-Fifty.pdf Changing Times, Changing Minds: 100 Years of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine By Design: The Story of Crown Equipment Corporation (often cited as a model of a compelling company history, showing how a focus on stories about and the people in the company, and photos, can bring to life the story of a product like a lift truck--in this case, the BMW of lift trucks) YPO: The First Fifty Years . ''A fascinating book that tells the story of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO). It started when Ray Hickok, just 27 and having returned from World War II, had to take over a family business when his father died. He brought together other young men like himself and the rest is history--told by a skilled writer about those turbulent times that set in place this nation's economic dominance. An American Biography: An Industrialist Remembers the Twentieth Century by Pat McNees (foreword by Robert Kanigel) New Formulas for America's Workforce: Girls in Science and Engineering by Pat McNees (for National Science Foundation) Starting Over by Herman Sheets with Pat McNees Many more personal histories for private clients. Anthologies: Contemporary Latin American Short Stories (ed., Pat McNees) DYING: A Book of Comfort Healing words on loss and grief ed. Pat McNees My W or ds Are Gonna L inger : The Art of Personal History ed. by Paula Stallings Yost and Pat McNees, with a foreword by Rick Bragg https://www.patmcnees.com/bio.htm#bookmark2 https://www.patmcnees.com/bio.htm#bookmark1 http://www.amazon.com/dp/1882203151/ref=nosim?tag=writandedit-20 http://www.amazon.com/dp/1882203593/ref=nosim?tag=writandedit-20 https://www.patmcnees.com/bio.htm#bookmark5 http://www.amazon.com/dp/098201340X/ref=nosim?tag=writandedit-20 http://www.amazon.com/dp/098201340X/ref=nosim?tag=writandedit-20 http://www.amazon.com/dp/098201340X/ref=nosim?tag=writandedit-20 http://www.amazon.com/dp/098201340X/ref=nosim?tag=writandedit-20 http://www.amazon.com/dp/098201340X/ref=nosim?tag=writandedit-20 http://www.amazon.com/dp/098201340X/ref=nosim?tag=writandedit-20 http://www.amazon.com/dp/098201340X/ref=nosim?tag=writandedit-20

Enter your professional bio here : 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. https://cc.nih.gov/about/_pdf/Building-10-At-Fifty.pdf http://www.amazon.com/dp/1882203593/ref=nosim?tag=writandedit-20 http://www.amazon.com/dp/1882203151/ref=nosim?tag=writandedit-20 https://www.amazon.com/Changing-Psychiatry-University-Maryland-Medicine/dp/0982843100/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=Pat+McNees&link_code=qs&qid=1678807774&sourceid=Mozilla-search&sr=8-6

Awards and Recognition : NIH Plain Language Award National Association of Government Communicators First Place Award for Soft Cover Book: Building Ten at Fifty: 50 Years of Clinical Research at the NIH Clinical Center NAGC First Place Award for Writer's Portfolio,

Skills (Select all that apply) : Books, Blog posts, Editing, Feature writing, Ghostwriting, Investigative reporting, Op-Ed, Profiles, Essays, Speechwriting, Articles

List any memberships you have with other organizations : Authors Guild, Biographers International (BIO), National Association of Science Writers (NASW), Washington Biography Group (WBG)