COVER STORY
PAT MANN For Pat Mann, every book begins with a problem that needs solving and a lesson waiting to be shared. Her faith- rooted storytelling blends decades of life experience with a teacher’s instinct to make the complex feel simple.
ONG BEFORE SHE PUBLISHED her first book at 74, Pat Mann understood the power of a well- timed story. She discovered it as a farm girl listening to her mother read Bible stories aloud, as a teenager navigating small-town classrooms and church camps, and later as a young woman trying to make sense of military- town uncertainties while her husband served in the Army. Through every chapter, Mann found that Scripture—and the lived reality surrounding it—offered a set of lessons waiting to be shared. “I like to write when there is a need,” she says. For Mann, writing has never been an abstract pursuit. It is a tool, a response, a way to steady others in moments when structure matters most. Her path to authorship began quietly. In high school she breezed through writing assignments, even winning local competitions on social issues like alcoholism. College brought more validation: first-place awards, L
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