Patrick Wilkins

Patrick Wilkins is best known as a retired Pacific Northwest television journalist who worked as a news director, anchor, and especially as a feature reporter for KATU in Portland, Oregon. Several book listings and publisher-style descriptions describe him as spending about twenty years on the road, following stories across Oregon and Washington.

That reporting background clearly shapes his books. Works such as Somewhere in Oregon and Somewhere in the Northwest draw on the places, personalities, and history of the region, blending travel, memory, and local storytelling in a warm, accessible style.

There is also a separate Patrick Wilkins listed in science-fiction reference sources, but the most consistently documented information connected to this book author points to the Oregon journalist and regional writer. Because the available sources are brief and sometimes repetitive, the safest picture is of a writer whose voice grew out of decades of reporting and listening to people across the Northwest.