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Patience Abbe
Patience Shorrock Abbe (July 22, 1924 – March 17, 2012) was a best-selling author as a tween & teen.
Biography.
The daughter of James Abbe, a photographer, and Polly Shorrock, a Ziegfeld girl, Patience Abbe was born in Paris to globetrotting parents.
Instigated by her mother, she and her two younger brothers, Richard and John, wrote a best-selling book, "Around the World in Eleven Years" (1936) when Patience was 12.
children among his most amusing clients. Patience Abbe, 12 years old; Richard, 10, and Johnny, 8, were the children of Jim Abbe, an itinerant photographer, and his wife, the former Polly Platt, once a Ziegfeld girl. Prodded by their mother, the children dictated their memoirs, which Bye sold as "Around the World in Eleven Years". According to the Abbe family, Patience Abbe was the primary author. The book was a surprise hit.
In 1954, Bye arranged the sale