Ann Patchett
Autore di Belcanto
Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
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Opere di Ann Patchett
The Shop Dogs of Parnassus 2 copie
Patchett, Ann Archive 1 copia
Ann Patchett Collection 3 Books Set (The Dutch House, Commonwealth, This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage) (2020) 1 copia
Dutch house, The 1 copia
How to Practice 1 copia
My Three Fathers 1 copia
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My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop (2012) — Collaboratore — 569 copie, 15 recensioni
Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone (2007) — Collaboratore — 559 copie, 29 recensioni
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Collaboratore — 190 copie, 4 recensioni
Writers on Writing, 2: More Collected Essays from the New York Times (2003) — Collaboratore — 187 copie, 3 recensioni
Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation (2017) — Collaboratore — 185 copie, 4 recensioni
Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do (2013) — Collaboratore — 184 copie, 10 recensioni
Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the New York Times (2008) — Collaboratore — 167 copie, 6 recensioni
An Innocent Abroad: Life-Changing Trips from 35 Great Writers (2014) — Collaboratore — 73 copie, 4 recensioni
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1963-12-02
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Nashville, Tennessee, USA - Istruzione
- Sarah Lawrence College
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts
St Bernard Academy - Attività lavorative
- novelist
- Relazioni
- Ray, Jeanne (mother)
- Organizzazioni
- Fellowship of Southern Writers
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2017) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement (2014)
National Humanities Medal (2021) - Agente
- Lisa Bankoff (ICM)
- Breve biografia
- 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.
Utenti
Discussioni
BOOK DISCUSSION: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (contains SPOILERS) in Orange January/July (Aprile 2021)
Ann Patchett: American Author Challenge in 75 Books Challenge for 2017 (Novembre 2017)
State of Wonder, Anne Patchett in World Reading Circle (Agosto 2014)
BOOK DISCUSSION: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett in Orange January/July (Mag 2012)
Reading Bel Canto (no spoilers yet please) in Orange January/July (Febbraio 2012)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 32
- Opere correlate
- 28
- Utenti
- 46,942
- Popolarità
- #336
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 2,148
- ISBN
- 406
- Lingue
- 23
- Preferito da
- 171
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