Encore, Encore The brilliant sequel to the smash bestseller Auntie Mame is back and the reviews are in . . .About the Author:PATRICK DENNIS, the fictional narrator of Auntie Mame and Little Me, was the pen name of Edward Everett Tanner III (1921-1976). One of the most eccentric, celebrated, and widely read authors of the 1950s and 60s, Tanner wrote sixteen novels in all, a majority of which were national bestsellers.