Born in Seattle, Washington, Pat Silver-Lasky wrote as a team (as Pat Silver) with her late husband, the well-known Hollywood screenwriter and author, Jesse L. Lasky Jr., son of the film pioneer Jesse Lasky who produced the first full length motion picture in Hollywood, The Squaw Man (1914). With Jesse Jr., Pat wrote 4 books including the American...
Has two children, a son Richard Niles (composer, producer, arranger, guitarist, and journalist) and a daughter Lisa Hayden Miller (singer, restaurateur, chef and cookery book writer, author of "Galley Guru"), with her first husband Tony Romano.