De Kirkpatrick

Hugh DeArmond (“De”) Kirkpatrick is a native Charlottean. He attended three city public schools—Dilworth Elementary, Sedgefield Junior High, and Myers Park High School, graduating from Myers Park in 1966. He received a scholarship to Harvard, from which he graduated with honors in 1970. He received a M. Ed. in Guidance and Counseling from UNC-Charlotte in 1973. From 1970 to 1974, he helped found two community-based organizations in Charlotte—Open House Counseling Service and the Charlotte Drug Education Center.

In 1974, he moved to California, where he obtained a Ph.D. in Psychology from the Saybrook University (San Francisco) in 1978. He specialized in clinical and forensic psychology. He obtained a diploma in forensic psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in 1978. He lives in Charlotte and is married to Katie Holliday.

He self-published two psychological thrillers, Alienation of Affection and Trafficking Death. In 2022 he published Marse: A Psychological Portrait of the Southern Slave Master. He is working on a fourth book (title to be determined) with his brother and friend, Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick.