Ann Patchett
Autor(a) de Bel Canto
About the Author
Ann Patchett was born on December 2, 1963. She received the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2002 for her novel Bel Canto. Her other novels include The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft, The Magician's Assistant, and State of Wonder. She has also written several nonfiction works mostrar mais including Truth and Beauty: A Friendship, The Getaway Car, The Bookshop Strikes Back, and This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage. Ann's title's Commonweatlth and The Patron Saint of Liars made the New York Time bestseller list. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras por Ann Patchett
Another Year: An Essay 15 exemplares
The Shop Dogs of Parnassus 2 exemplares
Taft 1 exemplar
These Precious Days 1 exemplar
My Three Fathers 1 exemplar
How to Practice 1 exemplar
[Run] [By: Patchett, Ann] [July, 2008] 1 exemplar
Ann Patchett Collection 3 Books Set (The Dutch House, Commonwealth, This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage) (2020) 1 exemplar
Patchett, Ann Archive 1 exemplar
The patron saint of liars 1 exemplar
Associated Works
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop (2012) — Contribuidor — 549 exemplares
Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone (2007) — Contribuidor — 546 exemplares
Writers on Writing, 2: More Collected Essays from the New York Times (2003) — Contribuidor — 183 exemplares
Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do (2013) — Contribuidor — 175 exemplares
Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the New York Times (2008) — Contribuidor — 166 exemplares
Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation (2017) — Contribuidor — 164 exemplares
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Contribuidor — 164 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1963-12-02
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Locais de residência
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Nashville, Tennessee, USA - Educação
- Sarah Lawrence College
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts
St Bernard Academy - Ocupações
- novelist
- Relações
- Ray, Jeanne (mother)
- Organizações
- Fellowship of Southern Writers
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2017) - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement (2014)
National Humanities Medal (2021) - Agente
- Lisa Bankoff (ICM)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Ann Patchett was born in Los Angeles in 1963 and raised in Nashville. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. In 1990, she won a residential fellowship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars. It was named a New York Times Notable Book for 1992. In 1993, she received a Bunting Fellowship from the Mary Ingrahm Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College. Patchett's second novel, Taft, was awarded the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for the best work of fiction in 1994. Her third novel, The Magician's Assistant, was short-listed for England's Orange Prize and earned her a Guggenheim Fellowship.Her next novel, Bel Canto, won both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in 2002, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was named the Book Sense Book of the Year. It sold more than a million copies in the United States and has been translated into thirty languages. In 2004, Patchett published Truth & Beauty, a memoir of her friendship with the writer Lucy Grealy. It was named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Entertainment Weekly. Truth & Beauty was also a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and won the Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize, the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Alex Award from the American Library Association. She was also the editor of Best American Short Stories 2006.Patchett has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times magazine, Harper's, The Atlantic,The Washington Post, Gourmet, and Vogue. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband, Karl VanDevender.
Membros
Discussions
BOOK DISCUSSION: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (contains SPOILERS) em Orange January/July (Abril 2021)
Ann Patchett: American Author Challenge em 75 Books Challenge for 2017 (Novembro 2017)
State of Wonder, Anne Patchett em World Reading Circle (Agosto 2014)
BOOK DISCUSSION: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett em Orange January/July (Maio 2012)
Reading Bel Canto (no spoilers yet please) em Orange January/July (Fevereiro 2012)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 34
- Also by
- 28
- Membros
- 44,104
- Popularidade
- #376
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 2,030
- ISBN
- 388
- Línguas
- 21
- Marcado como favorito
- 169
- Acerca
- 1
- Pedras de toque
- 1,859