Patricia Josefchak

Patricia Josefchak passed away in November 2019. She had several passions, including history, music, her marriage and family, and their home and garden on a tiny slice of lakefront in Eastern Ontario, Canada. She earned a Bachelor’s in Mathematics and her Master’s in Management Science, both from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. And she had been writing fiction all her life…

Her imagination loved small towns and their history. Small towns are the settings for many of her stories. They provide realistic links to previous and future generations in ways that cities cannot do with any warmth or believability.

The Josefchaks trace back to Terchová, Žilina, Slovakia, a small village in the northwest of the country, the home of the Slovak folk hero Juraj Janošik. The Wine of Kings is Patricia’s tribute to previous generations, those who worked and dreamed and struggled to survive…to make a better world for the future…

This historic novel is not about her family but attempts to spotlight a place in time: the late 1880s Austria- Hungary Empire in Upper Hungary and a small region of the empire renowned for its wine — The Wine of Kings.