Ann Patchett
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Patchett at the 2012 Time 100 gala
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December 2, 1963 Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Occupation | Novelist, memoirist |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1992–present |
| Genre | Literary fiction |
| Notable works | Bel Canto |
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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), and Commonwealth (2016).
Patchett was born in Los Angeles, California. Her mother is the novelist Jeanne Ray.
Patchett attended St. Bernard Academy, a private Catholic school for girls in Nashville, Tennessee run by the Sisters of Mercy. Following graduation, she attended Sarah Lawrence College. She later attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. It was there that she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars.
In 2010, she co-founded the bookstore Parnassus Books with Karen Hayes; the store opened in November 2011. In 2016, Parnassus Books branched out with a mobile bookmobile, piggybacking on success of food trucks, and expanding the reach of the bookstore in Nashville. In 2012, Patchett was on the Time 100 list of most influential people in the world by TIME magazine.
Patchett's first published work was in The Paris Review, where she published a story before she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College.
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!"
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