Biography

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.

Books by Ann Patchett

Estos días preciosos
Estos días preciosos
2023
Tom Lake
Tom Lake
2023
Dogs As I See Them
Dogs As I See Them
2021
Fairy Tale Architecture
Fairy Tale Architecture
2021
La Maison des Hollandais
La Maison des Hollandais
2021
The Dutch House Low Price CD
The Dutch House Low Price CD
2021
These Precious Days
These Precious Days
2021
These Precious Days CD
These Precious Days CD
2021
Escape Goat
Escape Goat
2020
Het Hollandse huis
Het Hollandse huis
2019
La casa holandesa
La casa holandesa
2019
The Dutch house
The Dutch house
2019
The Dutch House CD
The Dutch House CD
2019
The Peanuts Papers
The Peanuts Papers
2019
הבית ההולנדי
הבית ההולנדי
2019
כל המשפחות המאושרות
כל המשפחות המאושרות
2019
Commonwealth Low Price CD
Commonwealth Low Price CD
2017
Hep Beraber
Hep Beraber
2017
$6 Stories 2016
$6 Stories 2016
2016
Bel Canto (SparkNotes Literatu
Bel Canto (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
2014
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage Low Price CD
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage Low Price CD
2014
Bookshop Strikes Back Independ
Bookshop Strikes Back Independents Pack
2013
Fluss der Wunder
Fluss der Wunder
2013
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
2013
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage Unabridged CD
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage Unabridged CD
2013
EL CORAZÓN DE LA JUNGLA
EL CORAZÓN DE LA JUNGLA
2012
Staat van verwondering
Staat van verwondering
2012
Stan zdumienia
Stan zdumienia
2012
State of Wonder Low Price CD
State of Wonder Low Price CD
2012
Schoonheid & trouw
Schoonheid & trouw
2009
The Magician's Assistant CD
The Magician's Assistant CD
2008
What Now? CD
What Now? CD
2008
Run CD
Run CD
2007
Run LP
Run LP
2007
The Patron Saint of Liars CD
The Patron Saint of Liars CD
2007
Bookclub-In-A-Box Discusses the Novel Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Bookclub-In-A-Box Discusses the Novel Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
2006
The Best American Short Stories 2006
The Best American Short Stories 2006
2006
Truth & Beauty
Truth & Beauty
2004
Truth & Beauty CD
Truth & Beauty CD
2004
Truth and Beauty a Friendship
Truth and Beauty a Friendship
2004
Regarding Emma
Regarding Emma
2003
The magician's assistant
The magician's assistant
1997
The Patron Saint of Liars
The Patron Saint of Liars
1992