Patricia Pfeiffer

In her farthest dreams, Patricia DeMars Pfeiffer never expected to become a novelist. When her husband retired, she started writing when asked to research the story of a Montana pioneer. His story so fascinated her, she bought a multitude of books on writing fiction and began writing--and rewriting. While teaching the life of Christ, Mary appeared between the lines of the Bible and almost demanded Pfeiffer to write her story. From those beginnings came Above All Women, which took ten years to research and write, and Roughin’ It In Montana.

Pfeiffer helped her son-in-law produce a video on the outlaw Henry Plummer. His wife intrigued her because although there are stacks of books and articles about Plummer, there are scarcely three pages about his missionary wife, Electa Bryan. Visiting Montana and Bannack State Park gave Pfeiffer the drive to write Electa’s story, The Sheriff’s Wife.

The idea for her latest book, Bury Him Deeper, came from hearing idle gossip as a child. She set the story on the farm where she grew up and was “tremendous fun to write—almost like living there again,” she says.

Keeping Her Head, is a fictionalized story of her great, great, great- grandmother who escaped the guillotine without loosing her head and came to Quebec. Pfeiffer's grandfather DeMars homesteaded in Southern Minnesota.

Pfeiffer was born in Central Minnesota. Her mother was a country schoolteacher, so Pfeiffer moved often as a child. She came west to work on the “atomic bomb project” in Washington state and met her husband in North Idaho, when he returned from service with the Marines in the South Pacific. They were married in 1945 and have raised seven children. She and her husband lived on a hobby farm in Eastern Washington. Pfeiffer has always been active in church affairs and for several years directed the now largest Christian workers conference in the nation. She still serves on that committee.

Pfeiffer taught workshops in several states at Christian Writers Workshops and directed one in Spokane, Washington, for five years. Now, besides writing, Pfeiffer teaches extended learning classes for North Idaho College and heads a critique group. She gives many hours to helping beginning writers. Her doctor has promised her she will live to be a hundred. With this in mind, she is researching three coming novels, one based in Montana and two about French fur trappers before the time of Lewis and Clark.

Her signature is “Write On!”

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