Patricia raybon biography

American author and journalist

Patricia Raybon is an author and journalist. Her essays have been published in The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, USA Today, USA Weekend, Chicago Tribune, The Denver Post, and Rocky Mountain News, and reprinted in several college textbooks.^[1][2] She previously taught journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder.^[3]

Literary career

Raybon's first book was My First White Friend: Confessions on Race, Love, and Forgiveness, published by Viking in 1996.^[4] She describes her experiences growing up in a predominantly white suburb of Denver and reflects on the intersection of faith and racial healing in her life.^[5]Publishers Weekly commented that the "confessional has the intimate voice of hard-won honesty", and while a reviewer for Kirkus Reviews felt that certain aspects of the book were not fully explored, they praised it as "a universal testament to th