But perhaps it shouldn’t be a surprise that a man with more than 300 books to his name isn’t one to hold back. So often, it seems that a celebrity controversy could be entirely preventable if the celebrity in question simply chose not to speak. Original story published Tuesday, June 14 follows. Please know that I strongly support a diversity of voices being heard-in literature, in Hollywood, everywhere.” “I absolutely do not believe that racism is practiced against white writers. “I apologize for saying white male writers having trouble finding work is a form of racism,” Patterson wrote in a June 14 Facebook post. Update, Tuesday, June 14 at 6:28 p.m.: James Patterson has walked back his widely criticized comments to The Sunday Times about older white men who wanted to be writers facing “another form of racism.” According to Patterson, he doesn’t actually believe what he said.
