Patricia Brady

Patricia Brady is a social and cultural historian who has published extensively on first ladies, women, free people of color, cemeteries, literature, and the arts in the South. A Texan, she came to New Orleans in 1961 to attend Newcomb College and has lived in the city ever since. She received the PhD from Tulane University and taught history at Dillard University. She founded and was director of the publications department at the Historic New Orleans Collection for twenty years. Brady is a past president of the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival and invited Dorothy Allison to come to the Festival for the first time over thirty years ago.