Ann Beattie

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Ann Beattie (2006)

Ann Beattie (born September 8, 1947 in Washington, DC ) is an American writer of short stories , short stories and novels . She has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Malamud Award from the PEN American Center for her short stories. Beattie has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1992 and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2004 .

Works

Volumes of prose

  • Distortions (1976)
  • Secrets and Surprises (1978)
  • The Burning House (1982)
  • What Was Mine (1991)
  • Where You'll Find Me and Other Stories (1993)
  • Park City (1998)
  • Perfect Recall (2000)
  • Follies: New Stories (2005)

Novels

  • Chilly Scenes of Winter (1976)
  • Falling in Place (1981)
    • German: American summer , translated by Anke Kreutzer, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1981
  • Love Always , Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 1985, ISBN 0-14-008566-1
  • Picturing Will (1990)
  • Another You (1995)
  • My Life, Starring Dara Falcon (1997)
    • German: My foreign life , translated by Susanne Baum, Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-8105-0243-X
    • Published in 2003 under the title Dangerous Friend in the Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag.
  • The Doctor's House. A Novel , Scribner, New York 2002, ISBN 0-7432-1264-9
personal data
SURNAME Beattie, Ann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC , USA