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10 Facts About Patricia Robins

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Patricia Robins was a British writer of short stories and over 80 novels mainly romances from 1934 to 2016, she signed under the pseudonym Claire Lorrimer, she had sold more than ten million copies.

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Patricia Robins served as Women's Auxiliary Air Force officer during World War II tracking Nazi bombers.

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Patricia Robins's mother was the popular romance writer Denise Robins, who sold more than one hundred million copies and was the first president of the Romantic Novelists' Association.

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Patricia Robins's maternal uncle was Adrian Cornwell-Clyne, who wrote books on photography and cinematography, another uncle was an artist, as is her daughter.

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Patricia Denise Robins was born on 1 February 1921 in Hove, Sussex, England, the second daughter of Arthur Robins, a corn broker on the Baltic Exchange and Denise Robins, a prolific author, who sold more than one hundred million copies, and the first president of the Romantic Novelists' Association.

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Patricia Robins had two sisters, Eve Louise and Anne Eleanor.

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Patricia Robins was educated at Parents' National Educational Union at Burgess Hill, Sussex, and in Switzerland and Germany.

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Patricia Robins's mother encouraged her to write, and at 12 she published her first children's novella in 1934.

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Patricia Robins worked as junior editor in a woman's magazine editorial and published short stories.

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Patricia Robins tracked Nazi bombers with the fledgling British radar system in a top-secret RAF filter room.