Ann Patchett
Author of Bel Canto
About the Author
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 show more 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) show less
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Works by Ann Patchett
Another Year: An Essay 14 copies
The Shop Dogs of Parnassus 2 copies
Patchett, Ann Archive 1 copy
Ann Patchett Collection 3 Books Set (The Dutch House, Commonwealth, This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage) (2020) 1 copy
How to Practice 1 copy
My Three Fathers 1 copy
Associated Works
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop (2012) — Contributor — 562 copies
Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone (2007) — Contributor — 553 copies
Writers on Writing, 2: More Collected Essays from the New York Times (2003) — Contributor — 187 copies
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Contributor — 187 copies
Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do (2013) — Contributor — 182 copies
Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the New York Times (2008) — Contributor — 167 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1963-12-02
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Places of residence
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Nashville, Tennessee, USA - Education
- Sarah Lawrence College
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts
St Bernard Academy - Occupations
- novelist
- Relationships
- Ray, Jeanne (mother)
- Organizations
- Fellowship of Southern Writers
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2017) - Awards and honors
- Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement (2014)
National Humanities Medal (2021) - Agent
- Lisa Bankoff (ICM)
- Short biography
- 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.
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BOOK DISCUSSION: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (contains SPOILERS) in Orange January/July (April 2021)
Ann Patchett: American Author Challenge in 75 Books Challenge for 2017 (November 2017)
State of Wonder, Anne Patchett in World Reading Circle (August 2014)
BOOK DISCUSSION: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett in Orange January/July (May 2012)
Reading Bel Canto (no spoilers yet please) in Orange January/July (February 2012)
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Tom Lake will capture your heart.
The Rest of It:
In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family’s orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew. ~ Indiebound
Oh, how I loved this one. It starts off a little slow but once you get into it, it’s very hard to put down. The family dynamic has a very strong pull. These sisters, sharing their stories, their hopes and dreams while working in the orchard will absolutely capture your heart. And their mother, Lara and how she chooses to share snippets of her wildly exciting times as an actress will satisfy any theater kid at heart.
I won’t lie though. It’s not all fun and games. As glamorous as being a lead in a show is, in this case a summer production of Our Town, it has its drawbacks as well. For one, Lara’s infatuation with Peter Duke has her throwing all caution to the wind. A young girl, so in love, is bound to find heartache. No?
As Lara shares bits of that summer with her girls, they begin to put things together and although they thought they knew their mother quite well, they realize that she is her own person and perhaps not everything is to be shared.
I was a theater kid in high school and of course, both my kids went down that same path so it was no surprise how much I enjoyed Tom Lake. You don’t have to be a die hard theater kid to love this story though. It’s about love, the importance of family, the friends we cherished as young adults, and how a life comes to be. Sometimes not exactly as we imagined it but sweet, nonetheless.
Do yourself a favor and find a copy of this book.… (more)