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Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Patchett speaks during the Kennedy Center Honors, 2023
Patchett speaks during theKennedy Center Honors,2023
Born(1963-12-02)December 2, 1963(age 60)
Los Angeles,California,U.S.
OccupationNovelist,memoirist
EducationSarah Lawrence College(BA)
University of Iowa(MFA)
Period1992–present
GenreLiterary fiction
Notable worksBel Canto
Website
annpatchett.com

Ann Patchett(born December 2, 1963) is an American author. She received the 2002PEN/Faulkner Awardand theOrange Prize for Fictionin the same year, for hernovelBel Canto.[1][2]Patchett's other novels includeThe Patron Saint of Liars(1992),[3]Taft(1994),[4]The Magician's Assistant(1997),Run(2007),[5]State of Wonder(2011),Commonwealth(2016),The Dutch House(2019), andTom Lake(2023).[6]The Dutch Housewas a finalist for the2020Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[7]

Biography

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Ann Patchett was born on December 2, 1963, inLos Angeles, California,to Frank Patchett (a Los Angeles police captain who arrestedCharles MansonandSirhan Sirhan[8]) and Jeanne Ray (a nurse who later became a novelist).[9]She is the younger of two daughters. Her mother and father divorced when she was young. Her mother remarried, and when Patchett was six years old the family moved toNashville, Tennessee.[10]

Patchett attended St. Bernard Academy, a private Catholic school for girls in Nashville, Tennessee run by theSisters of Mercy.[3][4]Following graduation, she attendedSarah Lawrence College.[11][4]

After college, she attended theIowa Writers' Workshopat theUniversity of Iowa,where she lived with the memoirist and poetLucy Grealy.Their time as roommates and their life-long friendship was the subject of her 2004 memoirTruth & Beauty.

In her early twenties Patchett married; however, the marriage lasted only about a year.[12]

In her late twenties, Patchett won a fellowship to theFine Arts Work CenterinProvincetown, Massachusetts;[3]during her time there, she wrote her first novelThe Patron Saint of Liars,which was published in 1992.[3][9]

In 2010, she co-founded a bookstore with Karen Hayes, Parnassus Books, in Nashville, Tennessee, which opened in November 2011.[13]In 2016, Parnassus Books expanded, adding a bookmobile to expand the reach of the bookstore in Nashville.[14]

Patchett lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband, Karl VanDevender.[15]It is Patchett’s second marriage.[16]

Writing

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Patchett at theMiami Book Fair International2014

Patchett's first published work was inThe Paris Review,a story that appeared before she graduated fromSarah Lawrence College.[9]

For nine years, Patchett worked atSeventeenmagazine,[3]where she wrote primarilynon-fictionand the magazine published one of every five articles she wrote. She ended her relationship with the magazine after getting into a dispute with an editor and exclaiming, "I’ll never darken your door again!"[3]

Patchett has written for numerous publications, includingThe New Yorker,The New York Times Magazine,The Washington Post,O, The Oprah Magazine,ELLE,GQ,Gourmet,andVogue.[11] In 1992, Patchett publishedThe Patron Saint of Liars.[4]The novel was made into atelevision movie of the same titlein 1998.[17]Her second novelTaftwon theJanet Heidinger Kafka Prize in fictionin 1994.[4]Her third novel,The Magician’s Assistant,was released in 1997.[18]In 2001, her fourth novelBel Cantowas her breakthrough, becoming aNational Book Critics Circle Awardfinalist,[19]and winning thePEN/Faulkner Award.[1]

A friend of writerLucy Grealy,Patchett has written a memoir about their relationship,Truth & Beauty: A Friendship.Patchett's novel,Run,[5]was released in October 2007.What now?,published in April 2008, is an essay based on a commencement speech she delivered at her alma mater in 2006.

Patchett is the editor of the 2006 volume of the anthology seriesThe Best American Short Stories.[20]In 2011, she publishedState of Wonder,a novel set in theAmazon jungle,which was shortlisted for theOrange Prize.[2][21]In 2016 she published her novelCommonwealthto widespread critical acclaim. Patchett called the book her "autobiographical first novel," explaining, “The wonderful thing about publishing this book at 52 is that I know that I am [already] capable of working from a place of deep imagination.”[22]

In 2019, Patchett published her first children's book,Lambslide,[23]and the novelThe Dutch House,[24]a finalist for the2020Pulitzer Prizefor Fiction.[25]

In November 2021, she publishedThese Precious Days,an essay collection she describes as the sequel toThis Is the Story of a Happy Marriage.These Precious Daysreceived wide acclaim, with review aggregatorBook Marksrating it a “rave” based on 25 reviews.[26]In 2023, Ann Patchett published a novel calledTom Lake,and it was ranked a The New York Times Best Sellers.[27]

Her work has been translated into more than 30 languages.[28]

Awards and honors

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Published works

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Novels

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  • — (1992).The Patron Saint of Liars.Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.ISBN039561306X.OCLC24796726.
  • — (1994).Taft.Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.ISBN9780395694619.Retrieved14 September2016.Reprinted in the following year, seeTaft.New York, NY: Random House. 1995.ISBN0804113882.Retrieved14 September2016.
  • — (1997).The Magician's Assistant.New York: Harcourt Brace.ISBN9780151002634.OCLC36225079.
  • — (2001).Bel Canto.New York: HarperCollins.ISBN9780060188733.OCLC45466121.
  • — (2007).Run.New York: HarperLuxe.ISBN9780061363931.OCLC173640797.
  • — (2011).State of Wonder.New York: Harper.ISBN978-0062049803.OCLC649701863.
  • — (2016).Commonwealth.New York, NY: Harper.ISBN9780062491794.OCLC932576291.
  • — (2019).The Dutch House.New York, NY: Harper.ISBN9780062963673.
  • — (2023).Tom Lake.New York, NY: Harper.ISBN9780063327528.

Nonfiction

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References

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  1. ^abcPEN/Faulkner Staff (2002)."Past Winners & Finalists: 2002—Ann Patchett,Bel Canto".penfaulkner.org.Archived fromthe originalon 21 December 2013.Retrieved14 September2016.
  2. ^abcMark Brown (April 17, 2012)."Orange Prize 2012 Shortlist Puts Ann Patchett in Running for Second Victory".The Guardian.RetrievedMay 14,2022.
  3. ^abcdefWeich, Dave; Patchett, Ann (June 27, 2001)."Exclusive to Powell's, Author Interviews: Ann Patchett Hits All the Right Notes".Archived fromthe originalon February 4, 2006.Retrieved2022-05-14.
  4. ^abcdefDukes, Jessica; Patchett, Ann."Meet the Writers: Ann Patchett".barnesandnoble.com.Archived fromthe originalon 8 June 2007.Retrieved2007-07-02.
  5. ^abHart, Jennifer; Patchett, Ann (September 24, 2008)."Book Club GirlTalks With Ann Patchett, Author ofRun".Retrieved14 September2016.
  6. ^"Ann Patchett".Goodreads.Retrieved2016-11-04.
  7. ^Maher, John (May 4, 2020)."Moser, Whitehead, McDaniel, Grandin, Boyer, Brown Win 2020 Pulitzers".Publishers Weekly.Retrieved2022-05-14.
  8. ^Lesser, Wendy (22 November 2013)."What's In Store".The New York Times.New York.Retrieved6 July2022.
  9. ^abcLundquist, Molly."State of Wonder - Ann Patchett - Author Biography - LitLovers".www.litlovers.com.Retrieved2022-05-14.
  10. ^Giles, Wanda H.; Bonner, J. H. (2009).Twenty-First-Century American Novelists: Second Series.Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 350. Detroit: Gale Cengage Learning.ISBN9780787681685– via Literature Resource Center.Ann Patchett
  11. ^abPatchett, Ann."About Ann"(autobiography).annpatchett.com.Retrieved14 September2016.
  12. ^Alex Witchel (2021-11-30)."Ann Patchett Has Thoughts on a Bunch of Subjects".The New York Times.Retrieved2022-05-14.
  13. ^Patchett, Ann (December 2012)."The Bookstore Strikes Back".The Atlantic.RetrievedMarch 6,2014.
  14. ^Alter, Alexandra (Mar 24, 2016)."Ann Patchett's Nashville Bookstore Hits the Road, With Dogs in Tow".The New York Times.Retrieved2022-05-14.
  15. ^"Ann Patchett".Amazon.com.
  16. ^Puig, Claudia."'A Happy Marriage' weds Patchett's prose to essays ".USA TODAY.Retrieved2021-12-14.
  17. ^Gyllenhaal, Stephen (1998-04-05),The Patron Saint of Liars,retrieved2016-11-11
  18. ^"The Magician's Assistant".seattlecentral.edu.Retrieved2016-11-11.
  19. ^abNBCC Staff (2001)."All Past National Book Critics Circle Award Winners and Finalists: 2001 Awards, Fiction Finalists".bookcritics.org [National Book Critics Circle].Archived fromthe originalon 18 October 2015.Retrieved14 September2016.
  20. ^Books, Used, New, and Out of Print Books - We Buy and Sell - Powell's."Best American Short Stories 2006 by Patchett, Ann".www.powells.com.Retrieved2016-10-07.{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  21. ^"Orange prize shortlist 2012 - in pictures".the Guardian.2012-04-17.Retrieved2016-11-11.
  22. ^Patchett, Ann (September 8, 2017)."Ann Patchett Calls 'Commonwealth' Her 'Autobiographical First Novel'".NPR.org.RetrievedJanuary 21,2021.
  23. ^Hilboldt Allport, Brandy (4 May 2019)."Read All About It: Patchett tries hand at children's book with 'Lambslide'".The Florida Times-Union.Retrieved2020-04-28.
  24. ^"Ann Patchett Explains Why She Had to Totally Rewrite her New Novel 'The Dutch House' And Her Problem with Villains".Time.Retrieved2020-04-28.
  25. ^Maher, John (May 4, 2020)."Moser, Whitehead, McDaniel, Grandin, Boyer, Brown Win 2020 Pulitzers".Publishers Weekly.RetrievedJanuary 22,2021.
  26. ^"Book Marks reviews of These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett".Book Marks.Retrieved2021-12-14.
  27. ^"Combined Print & E-Book Fiction - Best Sellers - Books - The New York Times".The New York Times.ISSN0362-4331.Retrieved2023-09-28.
  28. ^"In" These Precious Days, "Ann Patchett reflects on her life and art".WYPR.Retrieved2022-04-02.
  29. ^Owens, Ann Marie Deer."Vanderbilt Libraries host conversation with Moser and Patchett".Vanderbilt University.Retrieved2019-09-29.
  30. ^"Ann Patchett Wins Orange Prize for Fiction 2002".WritersWrite.com.Writers Write Inc. 27 June 2002.RetrievedMay 14,2022.
  31. ^"Book Sense Book of the Year - Book awards - LibraryThing".Retrieved2018-03-16.
  32. ^Wellcome Collection Staff (2011)."All books A-Z:State of Wonder,By Ann PatchettS, Shortlist 2011 ".wellcomebookprize.org [Wellcome Collection's Wellcome Book Prize].Retrieved14 September2016.
  33. ^Guggenheim Fndn. Staff (1995)."Fellows: Ann Patchett, 1995; Field of Study, Fiction".gf.org [John and Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation].Retrieved14 September2016.
  34. ^Elizabeth Gilbert (April 18, 2012)."The World's 100 Most Influential People, 2012: Ann Patchett, Writer".Time.Archived fromthe originalon April 19, 2012.Retrieved14 September2016.
  35. ^Watts, James D. Jr. (March 30, 2014)."Ann Patchett is 2014 Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award Recipient".Tulsa World.Retrieved14 September2016.
  36. ^"Kenyon Review for Literary Achievement".KenyonReview.org.Archived fromthe originalon 2018-01-09.Retrieved2017-08-20.
  37. ^"2017 Newly Elected Members – American Academy of Arts and Letters".artsandletters.org.Retrieved2021-12-14.
  38. ^"Chance the Rapper, Ann Patchett and Cristina Henríquez win 2024 Library Foundation awards".Chicago Tribune.2024-06-25.Retrieved2024-06-26.
  39. ^"Meet the 2024 Library Foundation Award Honorees".Chicago Public Library Foundation.Retrieved2024-06-26.
  40. ^Kellogg, Carolyn (August 29, 2011)."Ann Patchett's lessons on writing, from Byliner".Los Angeles Times.

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