Patricia Schultz

Patricia Schultz (born Her books include the bestseller 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, which had over three million copies in print as of 2019.

Early life Schultz was born and raised in Beacon, New York, a small city in upstate New York beside the Hudson River. She has attributed her love of travel to the childhood family vacations she took with her family, to places on the East Coast. When she was fourteen years old, Schultz spent two weeks in the Dominican Republic while visiting a friend. A revised edition of the book was released in 2012. In 2019, Schultz reworked 1,000 Places to See Before You Die into a coffee table version, with a focus on photography rather than text.

She is also a contributing editor to Travel Weekly.

Personal life Schultz married her husband, Nick, in 2000. When Schultz first began to travel extensively, she would buy rugs as souvenirs. However, she found that shipping the rugs home, and displaying a large number of them, was too difficult. Instead, she began collecting ornaments for her Christmas tree from the locales she visited.

When asked where she would go if she could take only one more trip, she stated that she would travel to Florence where she would rent an apartment and live as a local.

Schultz lives in New York City.

Selected publications

Made in Italy: A Shopper's Guide to Florence, Milan, Rome and Venice. with Annie Brody. New York: Workman Publishing, 1988. Access Florence and Venice: Plus Tuscany and the Veneto. with Craig Manley, Richard Saul Wurman, and Toni Sepeda. New York: HarperCollins, 1998. Frommer's Italy from $70 a Day: The Ultimate Guide to Comfortable Low-Cost Travel. with Reid Bramblett and Stephen Brewer. Hoboken: John Wiley, 1999. Berlitz Pocket Guide Milan & the Italian Lakes. Springfield, NJ: Berlitz Publishing, 2001. 1,000 Places to See Before You Die. New York: Workman Publishing, 2003. Berlitz Pocket Guide Italy. Springfield, NJ: Berlitz Publishing, 2003. Berlitz Pocket Guide Rome. Springfield, NJ: Berlitz Publishing, 2003. Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides: Boston. with David Lyon and Jonathan Schultz. New York: DK Publishing, 2003. Berlitz Pocket Guide Florence, 12th edition. Springfield, NJ: Berlitz Publishing, 2005. 1,000 Places to See in the USA and Canada Before You Die. New York: Workman Publishing, 2007. Perfect Island Getaways from 1,000 Places to See Before You Die: The Caribbean, Bahamas & Bermuda. New York: Workman Publishing, 2011. Why We Travel: 100 Reasons to See the World. New York: Workman Publishing, 2022.