Author
Patricia Corrigan
Journalist
Patricia Corrigan is a journalist whose work has appeared in the St. Louis Jewish Light, the Chicago Tribune and USA Today. For two decades, she worked at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She is the author of 18 books, most recently “100 Things to Do in San Francisco Before You Die.”
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