Ann Patchett Explained

Ann Patchett
Birth Date:December 2, 1963
Birth Place:Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Education:Sarah Lawrence College (BA)
University of Iowa (MFA)
Occupation:Novelist, memoirist
Period:1992–present
Genre:Literary fiction
Notableworks:Bel Canto

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. Patchett's other novels include The Patron Saint of Liars (1992), Taft (1994), The Magician's Assistant (1997), Run (2007), State of Wonder (2011), Commonwealth (2016), The Dutch House (2019), and Tom Lake (2023).[1] The Dutch House was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[2]

Biography

Ann Patchett was born on December 2, 1963, in Los Angeles, California, to Frank Patchett (a Los Angeles police captain who arrested Charles Manson and Sirhan Sirhan[3]) and Jeanne Ray (a nurse who later became a novelist).[4] She is the younger of two daughters. Her mother and father divorced when she was young. Her mother remarried, and when Patchett was six years old the family moved to Nashville, Tennessee.[5]

Patchett attended St. Bernard Academy, a private Catholic school for girls in Nashville, Tennessee run by the Sisters of Mercy.[6] [7] Following graduation, she attended Sarah Lawrence College.[8] [7]

After college, she attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, where she lived with the memoirist and poet Lucy Grealy. Their time as roommates and their life-long friendship was the subject of her 2004 memoir Truth & Beauty.

In her early twenties Patchett married; however, the marriage lasted only about a year.[9]

In her late twenties, Patchett won a fellowship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts; during her time there, she wrote her first novel The Patron Saint of Liars, which was published in 1992.[4]

In 2010, she co-founded a bookstore with Karen Hayes, Parnassus Books, in Nashville, Tennessee, which opened in November 2011.[10] In 2016, Parnassus Books expanded, adding a bookmobile to expand the reach of the bookstore in Nashville.[11]

Patchett lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband, Karl VanDevender.[12] It is Patchett’s second marriage.[13]

Writing

Patchett's first published work was in The Paris Review, a story that appeared before she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College.[4]

For nine years, Patchett worked at Seventeen magazine, 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!"

Patchett has written for numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, O, The Oprah Magazine, ELLE, GQ, Gourmet, and Vogue.[8] In 1992, Patchett published The Patron Saint of Liars. The novel was made into a television movie of the same title in 1998. Her second novel Taft won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize in fiction in 1994. Her third novel, The Magician’s Assistant, was released in 1997.[14] In 2001, her fourth novel Bel Canto was her breakthrough, becoming a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and winning the PEN/Faulkner Award.

A friend of writer Lucy Grealy, Patchett has written a memoir about their relationship, . Patchett's novel, Run,[15] 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.[16] In 2011, she published State of Wonder, a novel set in the Amazon jungle, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize.[17] In 2016 she published her novel Commonwealth to widespread critical acclaim. Patchett called the book her "autobiographical first novel," explaining, “The wonderful thing about publishing this book at 52 is that I know that I am [already] capable of working from a place of deep imagination.”[18]

In 2019, Patchett published her first children's book, Lambslide,[19] and the novel The Dutch House,[20] a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[21]

In November 2021, she published These Precious Days, an essay collection she describes as the sequel to This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage. These Precious Days received wide acclaim, with review aggregator Book Marks rating it a “rave” based on 25 reviews.[22] In 2023, Ann Patchett published a novel called Tom Lake, and it was ranked a The New York Times Best Sellers.[23]

Her work has been translated into more than 30 languages.[24]

Awards and honors

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Published works

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Nonfiction

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External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ann Patchett. Goodreads. 2016-11-04.
  2. Web site: Moser, Whitehead, McDaniel, Grandin, Boyer, Brown Win 2020 Pulitzers . Maher . John . May 4, 2020 . . 2022-05-14.
  3. News: Lesser . Wendy . 22 November 2013 . What's In Store . The New York Times . New York . 6 July 2022.
  4. Web site: State of Wonder - Ann Patchett - Author Biography - LitLovers. Lundquist. Molly. www.litlovers.com. 2022-05-14.
  5. Book: Twenty-First-Century American Novelists: Second Series. Giles. Wanda H.. Bonner. J. H.. Gale Cengage Learning. 2009. 9780787681685. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 350. Detroit. Ann Patchett. Literature Resource Center.
  6. Web site: Weich, Dave . Patchett, Ann . June 27, 2001 . Exclusive to Powell's, Author Interviews: Ann Patchett Hits All the Right Notes . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20060204201609/http://www.powells.com/authors/patchett.html . February 4, 2006 . 2022-05-14.
  7. Web site: Dukes, Jessica . Patchett, Ann . Meet the Writers: Ann Patchett . barnesandnoble.com . 2007-07-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20070608081636/http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writerdetails.asp?z=y&cid=1020421. 8 June 2007 . dead.
  8. Web site: Patchett, Ann . About Ann . annpatchett.com . autobiography . 14 September 2016 .
  9. News: Ann Patchett Has Thoughts on a Bunch of Subjects. Alex Witchel. The New York Times . 2021-11-30. 2022-05-14.
  10. Web site: Patchett, Ann . December 2012 . The Bookstore Strikes Back . . March 6, 2014.
  11. News: Ann Patchett's Nashville Bookstore Hits the Road, With Dogs in Tow. Alexandra. Alter. The New York Times . Mar 24, 2016. 2022-05-14.
  12. Web site: Ann Patchett. Amazon.com.
  13. Web site: Puig. Claudia. 'A Happy Marriage' weds Patchett's prose to essays. 2021-12-14. USA TODAY. en-US.
  14. Web site: The Magician's Assistant. seattlecentral.edu. 2016-11-11.
  15. Web site: Hart, Jennifer . Patchett, Ann . September 24, 2008 . Book Club Girl Talks With Ann Patchett, Author of Run . 14 September 2016 .
  16. Web site: Best American Short Stories 2006 by Patchett, Ann. Books. Used, New, and Out of Print Books - We Buy and Sell - Powell's. www.powells.com. 2016-10-07.
  17. Web site: Orange prize shortlist 2012 - in pictures. 2012-04-17. the Guardian. 2016-11-11.
  18. Web site: Ann Patchett Calls 'Commonwealth' Her 'Autobiographical First Novel'. Patchett. Ann. September 8, 2017. NPR.org. January 21, 2021.
  19. Web site: Read All About It: Patchett tries hand at children's book with 'Lambslide'. Hilboldt Allport. Brandy. 4 May 2019. The Florida Times-Union. en. 2020-04-28.
  20. Ann Patchett Explains Why She Had to Totally Rewrite her New Novel 'The Dutch House' And Her Problem with Villains. Time. en. 2020-04-28.
  21. Web site: Moser, Whitehead, McDaniel, Grandin, Boyer, Brown Win 2020 Pulitzers . Maher . John . May 4, 2020 . . January 22, 2021.
  22. Web site: Book Marks reviews of These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett. 2021-12-14. Book Marks. en-US.
  23. News: Combined Print & E-Book Fiction - Best Sellers - Books - The New York Times . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-09-28 . 0362-4331.
  24. Web site: In "These Precious Days," Ann Patchett reflects on her life and art . 2022-04-02 . WYPR . en.
  25. Web site: Vanderbilt Libraries host conversation with Moser and Patchett. Owens. Ann Marie Deer. Vanderbilt University. en. 2019-09-29.
  26. Web site: NBCC Staff . 2001 . All Past National Book Critics Circle Award Winners and Finalists: 2001 Awards, Fiction Finalists . bookcritics.org [National Book Critics Circle] . 14 September 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151018063346/http://bookcritics.org/awards/past_awards/ . 18 October 2015 . dead .
  27. Web site: PEN/Faulkner Staff . 2002 . Past Winners & Finalists: 2002—Ann Patchett, Bel Canto . penfaulkner.org . 14 September 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131221031240/http://www.penfaulkner.org/award-for-fiction/past-award-winners-finalists/ . 21 December 2013 . dead .
  28. Mark Brown . April 17, 2012 . Orange Prize 2012 Shortlist Puts Ann Patchett in Running for Second Victory . The Guardian . May 14, 2022 .
  29. Web site: Ann Patchett Wins Orange Prize for Fiction 2002 . WritersWrite.com . Writers Write Inc. . 27 June 2002 . May 14, 2022.
  30. Web site: Book Sense Book of the Year - Book awards - LibraryThing. 2018-03-16.
  31. Web site: Wellcome Collection Staff . 2011 . All books A-Z: State of Wonder, By Ann PatchettS, Shortlist 2011 . wellcomebookprize.org [Wellcome Collection's Wellcome Book Prize] . 14 September 2016 .
  32. Web site: Guggenheim Fndn. Staff . 1995 . Fellows: Ann Patchett, 1995; Field of Study, Fiction . gf.org [John and Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation] . 14 September 2016 .
  33. Elizabeth Gilbert . April 18, 2012 . The World's 100 Most Influential People, 2012: Ann Patchett, Writer . . https://web.archive.org/web/20120419010612/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2111975_2111976_2112138,00.html . dead . April 19, 2012 . 14 September 2016.
  34. Watts, James D. Jr. . March 30, 2014 . Ann Patchett is 2014 Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award Recipient . . 14 September 2016 .
  35. Web site: Kenyon Review for Literary Achievement. KenyonReview.org. 2017-08-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20180109090416/https://www.kenyonreview.org/programs/kenyon-review-award-for-literary-achievement/. 2018-01-09. dead.
  36. Web site: 2017 Newly Elected Members – American Academy of Arts and Letters. 2021-12-14. artsandletters.org.
  37. Web site: 2024-06-25 . Chance the Rapper, Ann Patchett and Cristina Henríquez win 2024 Library Foundation awards . 2024-06-26 . Chicago Tribune . en-US.
  38. Web site: Meet the 2024 Library Foundation Award Honorees . 2024-06-26 . Chicago Public Library Foundation . en-US.
  39. News: Los Angeles Times. Ann Patchett's lessons on writing, from Byliner. Kellogg, Carolyn. August 29, 2011.

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