Dr. Patricia Daly-Lipe, PhD, has been named Preferred Professionals Top Author for 2022! Known as the “Literary Lady,” her passion for writing can be felt throughout each story she has written, reaching avid readers of all ages and from around the world.
Known as the ‘Literary Lady’, Dr. Daly-Lipe has written a total of 11 books of various genres including, ‘Myth, Magic, and Metaphor, A Journey into the Heart of Creativity’, ‘La Jolla, A Celebration of Its Past’, ‘A Cruel Calm, Paris Between the Wars‘, ‘Miami’s Yester’ Years and Its Forgotten Founder, Locke Tiffin Highleyman’, ‘Patriot Priest’, ‘Horse Tales’, ‘Historic Tales of LaJolla’, ‘Nature’s Wisdom’, ‘Helen Holt’, ‘All Alone’, and ‘How She Did It’, a tribute to her mother-in-law and best friend, .
Her books, ‘La Jolla, A Celebration of Its Past,‘ published by Sunbelt Publications, was the Winner of the San Diego Books Awards in 2002; ‘A Cruel Calm, Paris Between the Wars‘ (1st edition: ‘Forbidden Loves’), won the 1st Runner-Up for Fiction JADA Trophy and the USABookNews.com Finalist Award and won FIRST place in the 2013 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards in the category Historical Fiction. Two of Dr. Daly-Lipe’s books, Myth, Magic and Metaphor and Patriot Priest have been awarded New York City Book Awards. , MYTH, MAGIC and METAPHOR, A Journey into the Heart of Creativity is based on classes Dr. Daly-Lipe conducted in Annapolis. It, like her classes, is meant to inspire the reader to be a writer, artist or musician; to listen to the creative muse who lurks within us all. Dr. Daly-Lipe hopes her book ‘A Cruel Calm, Paris Between the Wars’ might be considered for a movie. Her son Johnson Daly is currently writing the screenplay.
“To be a writer you have to be brave enough to listen to your heart and let yourself speak. There are no rules.”
A consummate writer, Dr. Daly-Lipe is also published in ‘TRACKS’, The Piedmont Journal of Poetry and Fiction published by PJPF, edited by Sara Brooks; for poems ‘A Poetic Meditation’, ‘Creativity’, and ‘Les Pierres de Lacoste’. “Keep a journal,” Dr. Daly-Lipe advised for all authors. “Write about your thoughts. Write about what you feel. The next generation can learn from it,” she explained. “To be a writer you have to be brave enough to listen to your heart and let yourself speak. There are no rules.”
Dr. Daly-Lipe is the past President of the National League of American Pen Women-La Jolla Branch and later President of the Washington, DC Branch. In 2007, she was speaker for the National Capital District 36 Toastmasters 2007 Spring Conference. Her presentation was titled ‘The Power of Words’. The Special Achievement Award was presented to Dr. Patricia Daly-Lipe for participation in the 2009 “Golden Nib” Contest and an award of second place in poetry for “A Poetic Meditation”.
Dr. Daly-Lipe has written for the Evening Star Newspaper in Washington, DC, the Beach and Bay Press including La Jolla Village News in California, and The Georgetowner and Uptowner Newspapers in Washington, DC as well as several magazines across the country.
In 2010, she was recognized as a VIP in the Cambridge Who’s Who. In 2013, Virginia Writers Club Summer Shorts Contest presented Dr. Daly-Lipe with first place for non-fiction contest. Her entry was titled: Journey into the Heart of Creativity. In April of 2014, Dr. Daly-Lipe was a speaker at the Annual Maryland Writers Conference. Her presentation was ‘Personal perspective in fiction and non-fiction.’ In 2016, she received the Top Author of the Year Award from the International Association of Top Professionals. Today for her continued contributions to the literary world, and for her passion and ability to make a difference in the lives of her readers, Dr. Daly-Lipe holds the Preferred Professionals Top Author title for 2022!
Dr. Daly-Lipe’s distinguished career began with a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy at Vassar College and a Bachelier en Philosophie Thomiste from the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) in the mid-1960’s. Living in Rome, Italy, Dr. Daly-Lipe met her only living relative on her mother’s side, Msgr. William Hemmick. Her book, PATRIOT PRIEST tells her great uncle’s story which she did not know until she researched years later. (When the first World War broke out, he felt committed to help the troops. After the war, he was proclaimed the Patriot Priest of Picardy by the Army and Navy. After years spent in Paris, William Hemmick was asked by the Vatican to come to Rome. Ultimately, he became the only American Canon of St. Peter’s Representing the Knights of Malta to the Holy See.) Dr. Daly-Lipe went on to earn her PhD in Humanities specializing in Creative Arts and Communication from Columbia Pacific University, 1998.
As creativity flows through her veins, Dr. Daly-Lipe can also be found lending her time to her paintings. “Sometimes it’s therapeutic to paint something that reflects how you feel.”
She also rescues Thoroughbred horses. She once raised and raced thoroughbreds (winning at Santa Anita, Hollywood Park, Golden Gate, and Del Mar) and rode and won in the hunter and jumper divisions at California horse shows. Now her granddaughter, Locke Motley, is winning at the horse shows. Two of her rescued horses who insisted on coming with her and her husband when they moved to Florida, “wrote” a book, ‘HORSE TALES, Teddy and Just’n Come to an Understanding’ which she “translated”.
When she’s not writing, Dr. Daly-Lipe enjoys spending time with her three children and husband Dr. Steele Lipe, M.D., a retired anesthesiologist. Both natives of LaJolla, CA, the couple have been married for 24 years, with Steele lending a hand as editor on many of her books, including the ‘Historic Tales of La Jolla’ of where they both grew up.
To learn more about Preferred Professionals Top Author Dr. Patricia Daly-Lipe or to purchase her books please visit www.literarylady.com. You may also find her paintings at: www.patricialipe.com/paintings
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