Laurence, Patricia

Patricia Laurence, a professor of English at the City College of New York, has also taught at Vassar College and Columbia University. She is the author of The Reading of Silence: Virginia Woolf in the English Tradition, and Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes extends her study of silence into the East and draws upon documents she encountered and interviews she conducted during her travels to China and England. Laurence lives with her husband in New York City.