Author / Editor

Charles Patterson in New York City

Patterson is an historian, editor, therapist, teacher and author of eleven books.

He grew up in New Britain, Connecticut and graduated from Kent School, Amherst College, the Episcopal Theological School, Columbia University (Ph.D.) and the Yad Vashem Institute for Holocaust Studies in Jerusalem.

He lives in New York City where he has taught courses in history, literature, and writing at New School University, Adelphi University, Metropolitan College and Hunter College.

His book Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust has been translated into French, Spanish, German, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Czech, Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian, Russian and Japanese with several more translations on the way.

Patterson is a member of The Authors Guild, PEN and the National Writers Union.



ETERNAL TREBLINKA shows the common roots of Nazi genocide and modern society's enslavement and slaughter of animals. The title comes from Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, who wrote, "For the animals it is an eternal Treblinka." The book concludes with profiles of Jewish and German animal activists with links to the Holocaust.