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Ann Patchett
Patchett at the 2012 Time 100 gala
Patchett at the 2012 Time 100 gala
Born (1963-12-02) December 2, 1963 (age 60)
Los Angeles, California, United States
OccupationNovelist, memoirist
NationalityAmerican
Period1992–present
GenreLiterary fiction
Notable worksBel Canto
Website
annpatchett.com

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

Patchett at the Miami Book Fair International 2014

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

For corpus

Published works

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. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • Patchett, Ann (1994). Taft. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. Retrieved 14 September 2016. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help) Reprinted in the following year, see Taft. New York, NY: Random House. 1995. ISBN 0804113882. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  • Patchett, Ann (1997). The Magician's Assistant. New York: Harcourt Brace. ISBN 9780151002634. OCLC 36225079. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • Patchett, Ann (2001). Bel Canto. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 9780060188733. OCLC 45466121. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • Patchett, Ann (2007). Run. New York: HarperLuxe. ISBN 9780061363931. OCLC 173640797. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • Patchett, Ann (2011). State of Wonder. New York: Harper. ISBN 0062049801. OCLC 649701863. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • Patchett, Ann (2016). Commonwealth. New York, NY: Harper. ISBN 9780062491794. OCLC 932576291. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)

Nonfiction

References

  1. ^ a b c PEN/Faulkner Staff (2002). "Past Winners & Finalists: 2002—Ann Patchett, Bel Canto". penfaulkner.org. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)[verification needed]
  4. ^ 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. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ a b Hart, Jennifer; Patchett, Ann (September 24, 2008). "Book Club Girl Talks With Ann Patchett, Author of Run". Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  6. ^ "Ann Patchett". Goodreads. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
  7. ^ 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. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)[better source needed]
  8. ^ a b c Lundquist, Molly. "State of Wonder - Ann Patchett - Author Biography - LitLovers". www.litlovers.com. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
  9. ^ 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
  10. ^ a b Patchett, Ann (September 14, 2016). "About Ann" (autobiography). annpatchett.com [personal website]. Retrieved 14 September 2016. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |work= (help)[third-party source needed]
  11. ^ Patchett, Ann (December 2012). "The Bookstore Strikes Back". The Atlantic. Retrieved March 6, 2014.
  12. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/business/media/a-bookstore-hits-the-road-with-dogs-in-tow.html?_r=0
  13. ^ Gilbert, Elizabeth (April 18, 2012). "The World's 100 Most Influential People, 2012: Ann Patchett, Writer". Time. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  14. ^ Gyllenhaal, Stephen (1998-04-05), The Patron Saint of Liars, retrieved 2016-11-11
  15. ^ "The Magician's Assistant". seattlecentral.edu. Retrieved 2016-11-11.
  16. ^ 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.
  17. ^ 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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  18. ^ "Orange prize shortlist 2012 - in pictures". the Guardian. 2012-04-17. Retrieved 2016-11-11.
  19. ^ 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.
  20. ^ Guggenheim Fndn. Staff (1995). "Fellows: Ann Patchett, 1995; Field of Study, Fiction". gf.org [John and Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  21. ^ Watts, Jr., James D. (March 30, 2014). "Ann Patchett is 2014 Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award Recipient". Tulsa World. Retrieved 14 September 2016.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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