Pamela Herrick writes historical fiction drawn from her deep Maine roots.
Pamela has an M.A. from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, training as a curator of decorative arts and historian of everyday life. She is also a past Helena Hayward Scholar in the Attingham Summer School for the Study of Historic Houses in the U.K..
Past projects include histories of widows' boardinghouses in 18th-century Philadelphia and studies of F.D.R.'s Top Cottage and Frederick Vanderbilt's estate in Hyde Park NY, both for the National Park Service.
Pamela is a 12th-generation Mainer and lives in Philadelphia where she is Curator of the Gilroy Roberts Collection at the Community College of Philadelphia.