Patricia Gay Volk

Background

Volk, Patricia Gay was born on July 16, 1943 in New York City. Daughter of Cecil Sussman and Audrey Elaine (Morgen) Volk.

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts cum laude, Syracuse University, 1964; student, School Visual Arts, New York City, 1968; student, New School, New York City, 1975; student, Columbia University, 1977-1988.

Career

Art director Appelbaum & Curtis, New York City, 1964-1965, Seventeen Magazine, Triangle Publications, New York City, 1966-1968. Copywriter Doyle, Dane, Bernbach, Inc., 1969-1988, also senior vice president, creative manager, 1969-1987, senior vice president- associate creative director, 1987-1988. Columnist New York Newsday, 1995-1996.

Fiction instructor Yeshiva College. Fiction instructor Playwrights Horizon Theater School, Marymount College, Master of Fine Arts Instructor Bennington College.

Achievements

• Patricia Gay Volk has been listed as a noteworthy novelist, essayist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • All It Takes

    (Book by Volk, Patricia)

  • The Yellow Banana
  • Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family by Volk, Patricia (2001) Hardcover
  • Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family

Membership

Member of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Century Association, Author's Guild, Juliana Berner's Anglers.

Connections

Married Andrew Blitzer, December 21, 1969. Children— Peter Morgen, Polly Volk.

Father:

Cecil Sussman Volk

Mother:

Audrey Elaine (Morgen) Volk

Spouse:

Andrew Blitzer

child:

Peter Morgen Volk

child:

Polly Volk