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Patricia Lee Buckley Bozell (April 23, 1927 – July 12, 2008) was an American author. She helped to establish and served as managing editor of Triumph, a Catholic opinion journal that was published for nearly a decade. A native of New York City and a graduate of Vassar College, she was a freelance editor at Regnery Publishing, National Review, The American Spectator, and Communio: International Catholic Review.
The daughter of William Frank Buckley, Sr., and Aloise Steiner Buckley, Patricia Buckley was the wife of L. Brent Bozell, Jr. (son of Bozell Worldwide co-founder L. Brent Bozell), the mother of Media Research Center founder L. Brent Bozell, III, and the sister of conservative author William F. Buckley Jr., and former United States Senator James L. Buckley. She and her husband were also the godparents to novelist Tristan Egolf.
Patricia Buckley Bozell is known for attempting to slap Ti-Grace Atkinson at an event at the Catholic University of America after Atkinson blasphemed Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary.