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] 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]

She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband, Karl VanDevender.[14]

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.[15] 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.[16] In 2001, her fourth novel Bel Canto was her breakthrough, becoming a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist,[17] 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.[18] In 2011 she published State of Wonder, a novel set in the Amazon jungle, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize.[2][19]

Awards and honors

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Published works

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Novels

  • — (1992). The Patron Saint of Liars [A Richard Todd book]. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 039561306X. OCLC 24796726. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  • — (1994). Taft. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. Retrieved 14 September 2016. Reprinted in the following year, see Taft. New York, NY: Random House. 1995. ISBN 0804113882. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  • — (1997). The Magician's Assistant. New York: Harcourt Brace. ISBN 9780151002634. OCLC 36225079.
  • — (2001). Bel Canto. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 9780060188733. OCLC 45466121.
  • — (2007). Run. New York: HarperLuxe. ISBN 9780061363931. OCLC 173640797.
  • — (2011). State of Wonder. New York: Harper. ISBN 0062049801. OCLC 649701863.
  • — (2016). Commonwealth. New York, NY: Harper. ISBN 9780062491794. OCLC 932576291.

Nonfiction

  • — (2004). Truth and Beauty: A Friendship. New York: Harper Collins. ISBN 0060572140. OCLC 53932670. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  • — (2008). What Now?. New York: Harper. ISBN 9780061340659. OCLC 179806486.
  • — (2011). The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life.
  • — (2011). "The Mercies". Granta. 114 (Spring). Reprinted in Henderson, Bill (ed.). The Pushcart Prize XXXVII: Best of the Small Presses 2013. Wainscott, NY/New York, NY: Pushcart Press/W.W. Norton. pp. 166–181.
  • — (2013). This is the Story of a Happy Marriage. New York, NY: Harper. ISBN 9780062236678. OCLC 857776359.
  • — (2013). "How Knitting Saved My Life. Twice". In Hood, Ann. Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting. New York: W.W. Norton. pp. 204–210. ISBN 0393239497. Retrieved 14 September 2016.

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; 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; 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; 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. ↑ 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. 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. ↑ https://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. ↑ "Ann Patchett". Amazon.com.
  15. ↑ Gyllenhaal, Stephen (1998-04-05), The Patron Saint of Liars, retrieved 2016-11-11
  16. ↑ "The Magician's Assistant". seattlecentral.edu. Retrieved 2016-11-11.
  17. 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.
  18. ↑ 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.
  19. ↑ "Orange prize shortlist 2012 - in pictures". the Guardian. 2012-04-17. Retrieved 2016-11-11.
  20. ↑ "Book Sense Book of the Year | Book awards | LibraryThing". www.librarything.com. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  21. ↑ 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.
  22. ↑ Guggenheim Fndn. Staff (1995). "Fellows: Ann Patchett, 1995; Field of Study, Fiction". gf.org [John and Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  23. ↑ Watts, Jr., James D. (March 30, 2014). "Ann Patchett is 2014 Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award Recipient". Tulsa World. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  24. ↑ "Kenyon Review for Literary Achievement". KenyonReview.org.

Further reading

  • Gilbert, Elizabeth (April 18, 2012). "The World's 100 Most Influential People, 2012: Ann Patchett, Writer". Time. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  • Philpott, Mary Laura (August 10, 2016). "I'm not Ann Patchett: Confessions of the Human Behind a Twitter Account". The Washington Post. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  • Brown, Jeffrey; Patchett, Ann (September 13, 2016). "Novelist Ann Patchett on How Independent Bookstores Build Community". PBS News Hour. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  • Official website
  • Works by or about Ann Patchett in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
  • Interview with Ann Patchett
  • "Ann Patchett on The Patron Saint of Liars". HarperCollins. 2006. Retrieved 2007-06-03.
  • Book Club Girl Audio Interview with Ann Patchett
  • StyleBlueprint - Packing with Ann Patchett
  • NPR Fresh Air interview, 2014-01-23
  • "The Patron Saint of Liars". Internet Movie DataBase. Retrieved 2007-07-03.
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