James Lloydovich Patterson

James Lloydovich Patterson is a Russian writer, naval officer and child actor of African American and Ukrainian descent.

James Lloydovich Patterson was born in Moscow on July 17, 1933, the eldest of three children born to an African American immigrant to the Soviet Union and his Ukrainian wife. Having arrived in the USSR as an unemployed actor looking for work during the Great Depression in 1932, James Pattersons father Lloyd Patterson, just 22, decided to remain permanently after meeting and falling in love with James mother, the theater artist Vera Ippolitovna Aralova.

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