Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett (2012)

Ann Patchett (born December 2, 1963 in Los Angeles ) is an American writer.

Life

Ann Patchett grew up in Los Angeles and moved to Nashville when her parents divorced when she was sixteen . She earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College , Bronxville, NY, and a Master of Fine Arts (1987) from the University of Iowa .

She published her first works as a student. She worked as a teacher and a waitress before becoming a freelance writer. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1994 and a 1997 Tennessee Williams Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of the South at Sewanee .

Patchett writes short stories, essays, and novels. In her best-known novel Bel Canto , she describes the surprising relationships that develop between South American hostage-takers and their prisoners. For this work she received the PEN / Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize . The Time magazine put it in 2012 on the list of 100 most influential people in the world (The 100 Most Influential People in the World).

In the biographical work Truth and Beauty , she writes about her friendship with the writer Lucy Grealy , who died in 2002.

Works

Novels

  • The Patron Saint of Liars. 1992.
  • Taffeta. 1994.
  • The Magician's Assistant. 1997.
  • Bel Canto. 2003.
  • Truth and Beauty. 2005.
  • Run. 2007.
  • State of Wonder . Harper, New York City 2011, ISBN 978-0-06-204980-3 .
  • This is the story of a happy marriage . Harper, New York City 2013
  • Commonwealth . Harper, New York City 2016

Non-fiction

  • Truth & Beauty: A Friendship. 2004.
  • What now? 2008.

Awards

  • 1994 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Taft
  • 2002 PEN / Faulkner Award for Bel Canto
  • 2002 Orange Prize for Bel Canto

She has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2017 . In 2020 Patchett was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 19, 2019 .