Ann Patchett
Autor/a de Bel Canto
Sobre l'autor
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'n més 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'n menys
Sèrie
Obres de Ann Patchett
Another Year: An Essay 15 exemplars
The Shop Dogs of Parnassus 2 exemplars
Patchett, Ann Archive 1 exemplars
Ann Patchett Collection 3 Books Set (The Dutch House, Commonwealth, This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage) (2020) 1 exemplars
Der Sommer zu Hause: Roman (German Edition) 1 exemplars
How to Practice 1 exemplars
My Three Fathers 1 exemplars
Obres associades
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop (2012) — Col·laborador — 558 exemplars
Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone (2007) — Col·laborador — 549 exemplars
Writers on Writing, 2: More Collected Essays from the New York Times (2003) — Col·laborador — 186 exemplars
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Col·laborador — 182 exemplars
Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do (2013) — Col·laborador — 179 exemplars
Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation (2017) — Col·laborador — 175 exemplars
Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the New York Times (2008) — Col·laborador — 167 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1963-12-02
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Nashville, Tennessee, USA - Educació
- Sarah Lawrence College
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts
St Bernard Academy - Professions
- novelist
- Relacions
- Ray, Jeanne (mother)
- Organitzacions
- Fellowship of Southern Writers
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2017) - Premis i honors
- Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement (2014)
National Humanities Medal (2021) - Agent
- Lisa Bankoff (ICM)
- Biografia breu
- 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.
Membres
Converses
BOOK DISCUSSION: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (contains SPOILERS) a Orange January/July (abril 2021)
Ann Patchett: American Author Challenge a 75 Books Challenge for 2017 (novembre 2017)
State of Wonder, Anne Patchett a World Reading Circle (agost 2014)
BOOK DISCUSSION: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett a Orange January/July (maig 2012)
Reading Bel Canto (no spoilers yet please) a Orange January/July (febrer 2012)
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 30
- També de
- 28
- Membres
- 45,749
- Popularitat
- #354
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 2,097
- ISBN
- 395
- Llengües
- 22
- Preferit
- 170