Patrice Johnson is publishing her account of the life of her son, Tyler, to tell the true story. Patrice graduated summa cum laude from Alma College and received her master’s degree in English literature from Michigan State University. When her children were young, she taught high school English and community college writing. She then spent sixteen years in the computer industry where she served as vice president of marketing and communications with a Fortune 500 company and was a weekly columnist for the industry’s largest trade publication.

     She has founded three successful technology companies and been quoted in USA Today and Business Week. Her work has received six first-place awards from the Michigan Press Women.

     She currently edits and writes for a multimedia community newspaper. She and her husband live on their eighty-acre family farm in the Midwest. Contact: thefallandriseoftylerjohnson@gmail.com;

Blog: fallandriseoftylerjohnson.wordpress.com; Twitter: @Patrice773377;

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