Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett

Patchett at the 2012 Time 100 gala
Born (1963-12-02) December 2, 1963
Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation Novelist, memoirist
Nationality American
Period 1992–present
Genre Literary fiction
Notable works Bel 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] Her mother is the novelist Jeanne Ray.[9]

Patchett attended St. Bernard Academy, a private Catholic school for girls 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]

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. 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 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]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 PEN/Faulkner Staff (2002). "Past Winners & Finalists: 2002—Ann Patchett, Bel Canto". penfaulkner.org. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 Brown, Mark (April 17, 2012). "Orange Prize 2012 Shortlist Puts Ann Patchett in Running for Second Victory". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Weich, Dave and 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.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Dukes, Jessica and Patchett, Ann. "Meet the Writers: Ann Patchett". barnesandnoble.com. Archived from the original (biosketch and interview) on 8 June 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-02.
  5. 1 2 Hart, Jennifer, and 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. 1 2 Anon. (September 14, 2016). "GoodReads: Ann Patchett [user submitted author biography]". Archived from the original on 26 August 2008. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  8. 1 2 3 Lundquist, Molly. "State of Wonder - Ann Patchett - Author Biography - LitLovers". www.litlovers.com. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
  9. ↑ Swilley, Stephanie (May 2002). "For Jeanne Ray, Writing is All in the Family". BookPage. ProMotion, Inc. Archived from the original on September 26, 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2009.
  10. 1 2 Patchett, Ann (September 14, 2016). "About Ann" (autobiography). annpatchett.com [personal website]. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  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. 1 2 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.
  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.

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