
With 39 New York Times best sellers, Patterson tops the newspaper’s list of best-selling authors. It’s something a lot of men and women would find very, very rewarding.” “Hopefully, contributions like this and others you’ll get will shine a light on it. “Nursing is not on people’s radar the way it should be,” he says. Nursing, like teaching, is one of those categories the best and brightest students need to consider, James Patterson says. Additional money will be deposited in an endowment to ensure future scholarship funds. Nursing students who plan to pursue their doctorates in nursing will be eligible for $10,000 a year in scholarships. Solie Nursing Scholars Fund in honor of Susan’s parents. While speaking at a June 15 campaign event, UW–Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin announced that a gift from James and Susan Patterson will establish the Lorraine and O.B. I follow the football and basketball teams very closely.” “I have become a massive Badger fan in all ways - in terms of the academics the school has always fostered, the great spirit you hear from people who went there or whose kids are going there now and, on another level, the athletics.

Patterson’s wife, Susan, earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UW–Madison, and she is the daughter of rabid Badger fans, Patterson says.
