John Pate is an accomplished writer in the field of entertainment as well as academia, creating unforgettable imagery through prose, poetry, drama, comedy, music, children's literature, and more. He has received high praise from all professional fields, including personal testimonies from the late William F. Buckley Jr., founder and chief editor of the National Review, as well as the award-winning British journalist Dan Wooding. Pate's career spans four decades and includes numerous network television writing credits, over one hundred national television appearances, and thousands of live performances from coast to coast. John Pate credits the legendary entertainment icon, Red Skelton, for introducing and mentoring him in the field of creative writing, and was noted by Mr. Skelton as his favorite young performer and personal opening act over a period of seven years. "Tears of Gaduhav" is John Pate's first full length novel, and will no doubt intrigue each reader to explore the numerous legends that surround this story, enticing the true southern literary enthusiast to travel with its inhabitants to the very end.
