Patricia Craig

Patricia Craig (born 1940s There are sources that state that her year of birth is 1952, and in 2015, the Belfast Telegraph stated that she was 63, which would mean she was born about 1952. One source states that she was born on 16 January 1949. The Independent states that she was born after the war and grew up in the 1950s. It is also believed that her year of birth was 1942.) is a writer, anthologist and literary critic from Northern Ireland, living in Antrim, County Antrim.

Personal life She was born in Belfast to Nora (née Brady) and Andy Craig before studying at the Belfast School of Art and then at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London (where she obtained a Diploma in Art & Design, Hons.). She returned to Northern Ireland in 1999. She is married to the Welsh artist Jeffrey Morgan. In London, she began to collaborate with Mary Cadogan, editing several books on children's literature. Their first book, You’re a Brick, Angela!, became a classic.

On her return to Northern Ireland, she began to write books with an Irish theme. One of the first was a biography of Brian Moore that was described by the critic Seamus Deane as "a crisp and intelligent account of a man and a writer for whom Craig's clean and incisive approach seems perfectly appropriate". Asking for Trouble (2008) Bookworm, A Memoir of Childhood Reading (2015)