![]() ![]() ![]() "I wish that more people would run for office. "Being inside of the process is very different than looking from outside," said Warren. Warren has been active as a school commissioner and as an activist, but this is her first time running for elective office. She's not favored to win one of the three seats up in the March 6 election, but she's having one helluva time running. The award-winning author and social activist, best known for her 1974 groundbreaking novel The Front Runner, finds herself in an unfamiliar position: running with the pack as one of 10 candidates in the West Hollywood City Council race. Now, at the age of 70, Patricia Nell Warren shows no signs of letting up and retains her taste for trying new things. More than three decades have passed since she first broke into the global scene with her first best-selling novel. Nearly four decades have come and gone since she was a young runner battling the American Athletic Union for the right to run women's marathons. ![]()
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