<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Quentin>Patrick Quentin</a> was a pseudonym mainly of <a href=http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2098877A>Hugh Callingham Wheeler</a>, but also, in various combinations, of <a href=http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n84-161599>Richard Wilson Webb</a>, Martha Mott Kelly (or Kelley) and Mary Louise White Aswell (<a href=http://www.thecolumnists.com/MillerDC/miller663.html>more</a>).