David L. Paterson

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This article is about the screenwriter David L. Paterson. For the New York lieutenant governor, see David Paterson.

David Lord Paterson (born 1966) is an American screenwriter, actor and producer.

When Paterson was a boy, his best friend, an eight-year-old girl named Lisa Hill, was struck by lightning and killed. His mother, author Katherine Paterson, used this real-life experience as the basis for her children's novel Bridge to Terabithia.[1] David Paterson produced and wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of the novel released in 2007.

He graduated from The Catholic University of America in 1989 with a BA.[2] Paterson held a special advance screening of Bridge to Terabithia on February 1, 2007, for members of the CUA community at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Md.

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  1. ^ Cited by Katherine Paterson on her website, Terabithia.com.
  2. ^ Catholic University of America Alumni magazine profile Spring '06 Retrieved 15 Feb 2007

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