Patricia Schultz Explained

Patricia Schultz
Birth Date:c.
Birth Place:Beacon, New York, US
Occupation:Writer
Education:Georgetown University

Patricia Schultz (born is an American travel writer and author.[1] Her books include the bestseller 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, which had over three million copies in print as of 2019.[2]

Early life

Schultz was born and raised in Beacon, New York, a small city in upstate New York beside the Hudson River.[3] [4] She has attributed her love of travel to the childhood family vacations she took with her family, to places on the East Coast.[5] When she was fourteen years old, Schultz spent two weeks in the Dominican Republic while visiting a friend.

Schultz attended Georgetown University, graduating with a degree in linguistics in 1975. During her junior year at Georgetown, she studied away in Madrid, Spain.

After her college graduation, Schultz visited Italy. Although intended to be a short trip, she ended up staying for three years after meeting an Italian man whom she started a relationship with.

Career

Schultz began her career in 1985 as a writer for Frommer’s Guide Books, and worked for the company for a decade.

Schultz is the author of 1,000 Places to See Before You Die. She worked on the book for eight years before publishing it in 2003.[6] [7] A revised edition of the book was released in 2012. In 2007, she published 1,000 Places to See in the USA and Canada Before You Die.[8] In 2019, Schultz reworked 1,000 Places to See Before You Die into a coffee table version, with a focus on photography rather than text. In 2022, she published Why We Travel: 100 Reasons to See the World.[9]

She is also a contributing editor to Travel Weekly.[10]

Personal life

Schultz married her husband, Nick, in 2000. When Schultz first began to travel extensively, she would buy rugs as souvenirs. However, she found that shipping the rugs home, and displaying a large number of them, was too difficult. Instead, she began collecting ornaments for her Christmas tree from the locales she visited.

When asked where she would go if she could take only one more trip, she stated that she would travel to Florence where she would rent an apartment and live as a local.

Schultz lives in New York City.

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Pottinger . Dave . November 2, 2019 . Meet Patricia Schultz, author of 1000 Places to See Before You Die . December 28, 2023 . Vancouver Sun.
  2. News: Bostrom . Annie . October 2019 . 1,000 Places to See before You Die: The ADULT World as You're Never Seen It Before . . December 29, 2023 . EBSCOHost.
  3. Web site: Zavoral . Linda . January 5, 2012 . Travel Q&A with '1,000 Places to See' author Patricia Schultz . https://web.archive.org/web/20170504015344/https://www.mercurynews.com/2012/01/05/travel-qa-with-1000-places-to-see-author-patricia-schultz/ . May 4, 2017 . December 28, 2023 . The Mercury News . en-US.
  4. Web site: March 19, 2015 . 5 Minutes With Patricia Schultz, 1000 Places . December 28, 2023 . McCool Travel Interviews . en-US.
  5. Web site: Associated Press . July 15, 2007 . '1,000 Places to See Before You Die' author lives for travel . December 28, 2023 . Gainesville Sun . en-US.
  6. Web site: November 20, 2019 . '1,000 Places to See Before You Die' author Patricia Schultz talks about her new book — and where she'd go if she only had one more trip . https://web.archive.org/web/20191121190601/https://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/ct-trav-1000-places-to-see-before-you-die-1201-20191120-xc2bflgc7rhmbox4si33azqb5m-story.html . November 21, 2019 . December 28, 2023 . Chicago Tribune.
  7. Web site: Langston . Keith . October 29, 2019 . Patricia Schultz – One Thousand Places to See Before You Die . December 28, 2023 . Passport Magazine . en-US.
  8. Web site: 1000 Places to See in the U.S.A. & Canada Before You Die . December 28, 2023 . Publishers Weekly.
  9. Web site: Manske . Laura . 'Why We Travel': 100 Reasons To See The World . December 28, 2023 . Forbes . en.
  10. Web site: Patricia-Schultz . December 28, 2023 . Travel Weekly.

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