Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett | |
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Patchett at the 2012 Time 100 gala | |
Born | Los Angeles, California, United States | December 2, 1963
Occupation | Novelist, memoirist |
Nationality | American |
Period | 1992–present |
Genre | Literary fiction |
Notable works | Bel Canto |
Website | |
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Ann Patchett (born December 2, 1963) is an American author. She received the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction in the same year, for her novel Bel Canto.[1][2] Patchett's other novels include The Patron Saint of Liars (1992),[3] Taft (1994),[4] The Magician's Assistant (1997), Run (2007),[5] State of Wonder (2011), and Commonwealth (2016).[6]
Biography
Patchett was born in Los Angeles, California.[7][8] She was the younger of two daughters of Frank Patchett, a Los Angeles police captain and Jeanne Ray, a nurse (who later became a novelist). The couple divorced and her mother remarried, moving the family to Nashville, Tennessee when Patchett was six years old.[9]
Patchett attended St. Bernard Academy, a private Catholic school for girls in Nashville, Tennessee run by the Sisters of Mercy.[3][4][7] Following graduation, she attended Sarah Lawrence College.[10] She later attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.[3] It was there that she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars.[3][8]
In 2010, she co-founded the bookstore Parnassus Books with Karen Hayes; the store opened in November 2011.[11] In 2016, Parnassus Books branched out with a mobile bookmobile, piggybacking on success of food trucks, and expanding the reach of the bookstore in Nashville.[12] In 2012, Patchett was on the Time 100 list of most influential people in the world by TIME magazine.[13]
Writing
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Patchett's first published work was in The Paris Review, where she published a story before she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College.[8]
For nine years, Patchett worked at Seventeen magazine,[3] where she wrote primarily non-fiction and 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, including The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, O, The Oprah Magazine, ELLE, GQ, Gourmet, and Vogue.[10][third-party source needed]
In 1992, Patchett published The Patron Saint of Liars.[4] The novel was made into a television movie of the same title in 1998.[14] Her second novel Taft won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize in fiction in 1994.[4] Her third novel, The Magician’s Assistant, was released in 1997.[15] In 2001, her fourth novel Bel Canto was her breakthrough, becoming a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist,[16] and winning the PEN/Faulkner Award.[1]
A friend of writer Lucy Grealy, Patchett has written a memoir about their relationship, Truth and Beauty: A Friendship.[citation needed] Patchett's novel, Run,[5] was released in October 2007.[citation needed] What now?, published in April 2008, is an essay based on a commencement speech she delivered at her alma mater in 2006.[citation needed]
Patchett is the editor of the 2006 volume of the anthology series The Best American Short Stories.[17] In 2011 she published State of Wonder, a novel set in the Amazon jungle, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize.[2][18]
Awards and honors
For specific works
- Nashville Banner Tennessee Writer of the Year Award, 1994.[citation needed]
- Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize (Taft), 1994.[4]
- National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (Bel Canto), 2001.[16]
- PEN/Faulkner Award (Bel Canto), 2002.[1]
- Orange Prize (Bel Canto), 2002.[2][verification needed]
- BookSense Book of the Year (Bel Canto).[when?][citation needed]
- Wellcome Trust Book Prize shortlist (State of Wonder), 2011.[19]
For corpus
- Guggenheim Fellowship, 1995 (mid-career).[20]
- Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award (body of work), 2014.[21]
Published works
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Novels
- Patchett, Ann (1992). The Patron Saint of Liars [A Richard Todd book]. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 039561306X. OCLC 24796726. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
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Nonfiction
- Patchett, Ann (2004). Truth and Beauty: A Friendship. New York: Harper Collins. ISBN 0060572140. OCLC 53932670. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
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References
- ^ a b c PEN/Faulkner Staff (2002). "Past Winners & Finalists: 2002—Ann Patchett, Bel Canto". penfaulkner.org. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
- ^ a b c Brown, Mark (April 17, 2012). "Orange Prize 2012 Shortlist Puts Ann Patchett in Running for Second Victory". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f Weich, Dave; Patchett, Ann (June 27, 2001). "Exclusive to Powell's, Author Interviews: Ann Patchett Hits All the Right Notes". Archived from the original (interview) on February 4, 2006. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
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suggested) (help)[verification needed] - ^ a b c d e Dukes, Jessica; Patchett, Ann. "Meet the Writers: Ann Patchett". barnesandnoble.com. Archived from the original (biosketch and interview) on 8 June 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-02.
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suggested) (help) - ^ a b Hart, Jennifer; Patchett, Ann (September 24, 2008). "Book Club Girl Talks With Ann Patchett, Author of Run". Retrieved 14 September 2016.
- ^ "Ann Patchett". Goodreads. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
- ^ a b Anon. (September 14, 2016). "GoodReads: Ann Patchett [user submitted author biography]". Archived from the original on 26 August 2008. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
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suggested) (help)[better source needed] - ^ a b c Lundquist, Molly. "State of Wonder - Ann Patchett - Author Biography - LitLovers". www.litlovers.com. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
- ^ Giles, Wanda H.; Bonner, J. H. (2009). Twenty-First-Century American Novelists: Second Series. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 350. Detroit: Gale Cengage Learning. ISBN 9780787681685 – via Literature Resource Center.
Ann Patchett
- ^ a b Patchett, Ann (September 14, 2016). "About Ann" (autobiography). annpatchett.com [personal website]. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
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(help)[third-party source needed] - ^ Patchett, Ann (December 2012). "The Bookstore Strikes Back". The Atlantic. Retrieved March 6, 2014.
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/business/media/a-bookstore-hits-the-road-with-dogs-in-tow.html?_r=0
- ^ Gilbert, Elizabeth (April 18, 2012). "The World's 100 Most Influential People, 2012: Ann Patchett, Writer". Time. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
- ^ Gyllenhaal, Stephen (1998-04-05), The Patron Saint of Liars, retrieved 2016-11-11
- ^ "The Magician's Assistant". seattlecentral.edu. Retrieved 2016-11-11.
- ^ a b NBCC Staff (2001). "All Past National Book Critics Circle Award Winners and Finalists: 2001 Awards, Fiction Finalists". bookcritics.org [National Book Critics Circle]. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
- ^ 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. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Orange prize shortlist 2012 - in pictures". the Guardian. 2012-04-17. Retrieved 2016-11-11.
- ^ Wellcome Collection Staff (2011). "All books A-Z: State of Wonder, By Ann PatchettS, Shortlist 2011". wellcomebookprize.org [Wellcome Collection's Wellcome Book Prize]. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
- ^ Guggenheim Fndn. Staff (1995). "Fellows: Ann Patchett, 1995; Field of Study, Fiction". gf.org [John and Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
- ^ Watts, Jr., James D. (March 30, 2014). "Ann Patchett is 2014 Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award Recipient". Tulsa World. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
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Further reading
- Gilbert, Elizabeth (April 18, 2012). "The World's 100 Most Influential People, 2012: Ann Patchett, Writer". Time. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
- Philpott, Mary Laura (August 10, 2016). "I'm not Ann Patchett: Confessions of the Human Behind a Twitter Account". The Washington Post. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
- Brown, Jeffrey; Patchett, Ann (September 13, 2016). "Novelist Ann Patchett on How Independent Bookstores Build Community". PBS News Hour. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
External links
- Official website
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- Interview with Ann Patchett
- "Ann Patchett on The Patron Saint of Liars". HarperCollins. 2006. Retrieved 2007-06-03.
- Book Club Girl Audio Interview with Ann Patchett
- StyleBlueprint - Packing with Ann Patchett
- NPR Fresh Air interview, 2014-01-23
- "The Patron Saint of Liars". Internet Movie DataBase. Retrieved 2007-07-03.
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- American women novelists
- American memoirists
- Guggenheim Fellows
- Writers from Tennessee
- University of Iowa alumni
- Sarah Lawrence College alumni
- 1963 births
- Living people
- Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
- American booksellers
- Women memoirists
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners
- 20th-century women writers
- 21st-century women writers