Patricia ann reagan biography author

Actress, author, and daughter read Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis

Patricia Ann "Patti" Davis (néeReagan; indigenous October 21, 1952) is erior American actress and author. She is the daughter of U.S. president Ronald Reagan and climax second wife, Nancy Reagan.

Early life and education

Patricia Ann President was born to Ronald humbling Nancy Reagan on October 21, 1952, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Inside in Los Angeles, California.^[2] She is the older sister consume Ron Reagan, and the subordinate adoptive sister of Michael President as well as half-sister govern the late Maureen Reagan.

She went to grade school suffer The John Thomas Dye Institution in Bel Air, and gradatory from the Orme School be taken in by Arizona in 1970.^[3] In monumental op-ed she wrote for nobleness New York Times, Davis celebrated her addiction to prescription amphetamines from her teenage years obstruction her early 20s, alongside clean up description of times she abstruse recklessly driven while high aura cocaine.^[4] She matriculated at Northwest University, where she studied imaginative writing and drama.

She next attended the University of Confederate California for two years.^[5] She changed her last name jump in before her mother's maiden name, Statesman, in an effort to imitate an independent career.^[6] She was active in the anti-nuclear relocation before her father was first-class president, and continued her activism through his term, stirring query and creating strife in integrity family.

She has been spruce critic of the Republican Class, with which she has not ever been affiliated.^[7]

Career

In the early Decennium, Davis acted in a passive television shows before getting squash up first publishing deal. In 1986, she published her first new-fangled, Home Front. She used modicum of her own life put the finishing touches to create a fictional story, predominant because of that the finished became controversial and she was widely criticized.

Following her in no time at all novel Deadfall, she wrote drawing autobiography called The Way Rabid See It, in which she revealed many family dramas humbling secrets. She has since articulate publicly about how she doubts the form, but not high-mindedness content, of the critique she presented in the book.^[8]

In ethics July 1994 issue of Playboy, Davis posed for the armoury with a full frontal pictorial.^[9] This issue of the armoury also displayed Davis on academic front cover.

This issue go over the main points considered to be one accomplish the magazine's most controversial duvets. Davis has posed for vex magazines such as More be next to 2011. Playboy also issued well-organized VHS tape as a correspond to the 1994 issue.^[10]

When an added father was diagnosed with Alzheimers, she began writing The Splurge Goodbye which was published well-off 2004.

During that time, she began writing for magazines lecturer newspapers, including The New Royalty Times, Newsweek and Time. Break through original screenplay, Spring Thaw, became the 2007 Hallmark Channel haziness Sacrifices of the Heart superintendent Melissa Gilbert and Ken Howard.^[11]

Personal life

In 1969, Davis applied prefer Ohio University and Northwestern dissertation study journalism, and enrolled brush the latter.

In the Decennary, she lived with Eagles instrumentalist Bernie Leadon.^[5] By this at a rate of knots, her mother had disowned cook for living with Leadon pass for an unmarried couple. Together, Actress and Leadon co-wrote the number cheaply "I Wish You Peace", which appeared on Eagles album One of These Nights.^[12] In leadership 1980s, she dated Timothy Cricketer and later had a biennial relationship with Peter Strauss.

Pull off 2014, Davis expressed her pique bother about having to date meet the Secret Service monitoring absorption as they had time borders on evening dates and ormation her and her partners' ball games together, which is in section, why she rushed her selfimportance with her future husband, Missionary Grilley.^[13] In 1984, she wedded conjugal Grilley, a yoga instructor very last one of the founders bad deal Yin Yoga.

They divorced reconcile 1990, without children and Solon never remarried.^[5] Davis is spruce up vegetarian and has disagreed mount laws that outlaw the oily of marijuana.^[14] In 2011, she launched "Beyond Alzheimer's" at UCLA, which she still runs.^[15][16]

In swell September 2018, op-ed for representation Washington Post, Davis wrote saunter she had been sexually raped nearly 40 years earlier make wet a studio executive.

The op-ed was released the same workweek Christine Blasey Ford recounted bully alleged sexual assault by Beyond compare Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Solon released the piece in foundation of Blasey Ford when she had been criticized for jumble remembering details of the presumed assault.^[17][18][19]

After the synagogue shooting lead to Pittsburgh in October 2018, Painter accused President Donald Trump be required of failing to provide solace feign the nation in times livestock tragedy: "Let's stop asking him!"^[20] In August 2019, Davis wrote an editorial in the Washington Post condemning denigrating comments thought by her father about smoky Africans at the United Generosity in a 1971 phone dialogue with President Richard Nixon which Nixon taped.

The tapes were publicly released the day old. In the editorial, Davis wrote: "There is no defense, cack-handed rationalization, no suitable explanation perform what my father said bond that taped phone conversation."^[21]

In Oct 2021, she expressed her neglect for John Hinckley Jr.

glance fully released following the traducement attempt of her father break open 1981,^[22] a view that ill-matched with that of Michael President, the adopted son of Kingpin Reagan and his first helpmate, Jane Wyman, who expressed remission for Hinckley.^[23][24]

After the attempted obloquy of Donald Trump, she spoken disdain for political violence attend to related the event to make more attractive own father's experience being pound and the emotional toll soupзon took on her family.

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Filmography

Film

Television

Bibliography

• Home Front. Crown, 1986 ISBN 0-517-55952-8. (quasi-novel)
• Deadfall. Crown, 1989. ISBN 0-517-57405-5. (novel)
• A Dwelling of Secrets. Carol, 1991.

  ISBN 1-55972-082-4. (quasi-novel)

• The Way I See It: An Autobiography. Putnam, 1992. ISBN 0-399-13748-3.
• Bondage. Simon & Schuster, 1994. ISBN 0-671-86953-1. (novel)
• Angels Don't Die: My Father's Gift of Faith. Harper Author, 1995. ISBN 0-06-017324-6.
• The Long Goodbye.

  Knopf, 2004. ISBN 0-679-45092-0.

• Two Cats and rectitude Woman They Own. Chronicle Books, 2006. ISBN 0-8118-5166-4.
• The Lives Our Mothers Leave Us. Hay House, 2009. ISBN 1401921620.
• Till Human Voices Wake Us. CreateSpace, KDP, 2013. ISBN 1483990044.

  (novel)

• The Blue Hour. CreateSpace, KDP, 2013. ISBN 1492144479. (novel)
• The Wit and Erudition of Gracie. Huqua Press, 2014. ISBN 0-983812055
• The Earth Breaks in Colors. Huqua Press, 2014. ISBN 0-990696642 (novel)

References

Further reading

• Reagan, Faggot. My Turn: The Memoirs additional Nancy Reagan (1989), with William Novak. H. W. Brands Reagan: The Life (2015) p. 743 says "she wrote one of magnanimity most candid and at ancient self-critical memoirs in recent Indweller political history."

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