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Patricia DeEtte Scott Warrick (February 6, 1925 – February 23, 2023) was an American literary scholar and editor, interested in science fiction and technology. She was a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Oskosh, Fox Cities, from 1966 to 1996. She was president of the Science Fiction Research Association in the 1980s. She co-edited Machines That Think (1984) with Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg.
Patricia S. Warrick | |
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Patricia Scott McArt (later Warrick), from a 1946 publication | |
| Born | Patricia DeEtte Scott February 6, 1925 LaGrange, Indiana, U.S. |
| Died | February 23, 2023 (age 98) Green Bay, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Other names | Patricia McArt |
| Occupation(s) | College professor, literary scholar, editor |
Scott was born in LaGrange, Indiana, the daughter of Ross Scott and DeEtte Ulman Scott. She earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Indiana University,[1] and a second bachelor's degree in English at Goshen College. She earned a master's degree in English at Purdue University. She completed doctoral studies in 1977 at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee,[2] with a dissertation titled "The Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fiction".[3]
Warrick taught at Lawrence University from 1965 to 1966.[4] She was a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Oskosh, Fox Cities campus, from 1966 to 1986.[5][6] She was president of the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) from 1983 to 1984.[7] "If fiction is to survive, it has no choice but to write about science and technology," she said in a 1986 interview. "And fiction will survive because inventing stories is a vital part of being human."[8] In 2004 she received the Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service from the SFRA. There is a Patricia A. Warrick Scholarship, named for her in 2006.[5]
In addition to her scholarship, Warrick wrote a self-published historical novel, Charles Babbage and the Countess (2007).
Scott married her first husband, physician Bruce A. McArt, in 1946;[1] they had three children, and divorced.[16] She married James E. Warrick in 1965; they divorced in 1972, remarried in 1973, and divorced again in 1977.[26][27] She was badly injured in a fall in 2000. She died in Green Bay, Wisconsin in 2023, at the age of 98.[28] (Her older brother, paleobotanist Richard A. Scott (1921–2024), survived her and lived to be 102.)[29]
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