Patience Abbe

Patience Shorrock Abbe (July 22, 1924 – March 17, 2012) was a best-selling author as a tween and teen.

Early life The daughter of James Abbe, a photographer, and Polly Shorrock, a Ziegfeld girl, Patience Abbe was born in Paris to globetrotting parents.

The fame of the books led the family to Hollywood, where the Abbes became part of Hollywood society. That marriage also ended in divorce.

Later years

For the last half century of her life, she lived in Marin and Shasta Counties, California, where she worked as a church secretary and as an assistant to authors. She was a sculptor and an active conservationist.

Her brother Richard W. Abbe, a California appellate court judge, died in 2000. Her brother John died in 2022 in La Jolla, California.