Person

Arlen, Alice

1940–2016

Albright Patterson was born in November 1940 to the journalist and former aviatrix Josephine Patterson Albright and her husband artist Ivan Albright; brought up in Chicago and educated at Radcliffe College and the University of Columbia, Alice returned to Chicago to work as a journalist and free-lance contributor to Channel 2, as well as writing a biography of her grandmother, pioneering newspaper publisher Cissy Patterson; first married to newspaper executive James Hoge by whom she had three children, she subsequently married author Michael Arlen, moving with him to New York; in 1983 her old friend Nora Ephron contacted her to jointly write the screenplay for the film Silkwood; since then she has worked sporadically in film, as well as continuing as an author