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Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett was born in Los Angeles, California, and moved with her family to Nashville, Tennessee at age six. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. In 1990, during a residential fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars, which was named a New York Times Notable Book for 1992. Her second novel, Taft (1994), was awarded the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for fiction. Her fourth novel, Bel Canto (2001), won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize, and sold over a million copies in the United States. Her memoir, Truth & Beauty, which chronicled her relationship with Lucy Grealy during Grealy's death from cancer, was published in 2004. She was the editor for Best American Short Stories 2006.

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American novelist and memoirist

Born 2 December 1963

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  • Cover of: Bel canto: a novel
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American novelist and memoirist

Born 2 December 1963

Subjects

Fiction, Fiction, family life, general, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, family life, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, coming of age, Brazil, fiction, Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, medical, Women scientists, fiction, Women, united states, biography, Authors, biography, Biography, Family secrets, Jungles, Large type books, Research, Scientists, American Authors, Boston (mass.), fiction, General, Medicine, Women authors, Books and reading, Brothers and sisters, fiction

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Amazon River Region, Boston (Mass.), Kentucky, Los Angeles (Calif.), Memphis (Tenn.), NEW YORK - BOSTON, Nebraska, New England, South America, United States

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Ann Patchett, American women and girls, Lucy Grealy

Time

1987-2003, 20TH CENTURY, 20th century

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January 13, 2025 Edited by raybb Edited without comment.
July 18, 2024 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
April 22, 2024 Edited by MARC Bot move website to links
January 15, 2024 Edited by JeffKaplan merge authors
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import