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Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Patchett at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2026
Born (1963-12-02) December 2, 1963 (age 62)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
EducationSarah Lawrence College (BA)
University of Iowa (MFA)
Occupations
Writing career
Period1992–present
GenreLiterary fiction
Notable workBel Canto
Websiteannpatchett.com

Ann Patchett (born December 2, 1963)[1][2] is an American author. In 2002 she received the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel Bel Canto.[3][4] Patchett's other novels include The Patron Saint of Liars (1992),[5] Taft (1994),[6] The Magician's Assistant (1997), Run (2007),[7] State of Wonder (2011), Commonwealth (2016), The Dutch House (2019), and Tom Lake (2023). The Dutch House was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[8]

Biography

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Ann Patchett was born December 2, 1963[2] in Los Angeles, to Frank Patchett (a Los Angeles police captain who arrested Charles Manson and Sirhan Sirhan[9]) and Jeanne Ray (a nurse who later became a novelist).[10] She is the younger of two daughters. Her parents divorced when she was young. Her mother remarried and when Patchett was six years old the family moved to Nashville.[11] She has described her stepfather as a "very, very weird guy" who had her carry a gun as early as age sixteen, and she partially attributes her disinterest in texting to his forcing her mother to carry a pager and respond to him on demand.[12]

Patchett attended St. Bernard Academy, a private Catholic school for girls in Nashville run by the Sisters of Mercy.[5][6] After graduation, she attended Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York.[13][6]

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. She married in her early twenties, but the marriage lasted only about a year.[14]

Patchett won a fellowship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts in her late twenties;[5] during her time there she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars, published in 1992.[5][10] In 2010, she co-founded the bookstore Parnassus Books with Karen Hayes, in Nashville. It opened in November 2011.[15] In 2016, Parnassus Books expanded, adding a bookmobile expanding the reach of the bookstore in Nashville.[16] Patchett lives in Nashville with her husband, Karl VanDevender.[17][18]

Writing

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Patchett at the 2014 Miami Book Fair International in Miami

Patchett's first published work was in The Paris Review, a story which appeared before she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College.[10] For nine years, Patchett worked at Seventeen magazine,[5] where she wrote primarily non-fiction. The magazine only 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!"[5]

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.[13] In 1992, she published The Patron Saint of Liars.[6] The novel was made into a television movie of the same title in 1998.[19] Her second novel Taft won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize in fiction in 1994.[6] Her third novel, The Magician’s Assistant, was released in 1997.[20] In 2001, she achieved a breakthrough with her fourth novel Bel Canto, becoming a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist[21] and winning the PEN/Faulkner Award.[3]

A friend of writer Lucy Grealy, Patchett wrote a memoir about their relationship, Truth & Beauty: A Friendship. Patchett's novel, Run,[7] 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. She is the editor of the 2006 volume of the anthology series The Best American Short Stories.[22] In 2011, she published State of Wonder, a novel set in the Amazon jungle, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize.[4][23] In 2016 she published the 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.”[24]

In 2019, Patchett published her first children's book, Lambslide,[25] and the novel The Dutch House,[26] a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[27] In November 2021, she published These Precious Days, an essay collection. In 2023, Ann Patchett published a novel called Tom Lake, and it made The New York Times Best Seller list.[28]

When asked how to encourage people to slow down and contemplate more during a 2024 interview for the BBC, she responded:[29]

Wouldn't it be lovely if people sat quietly for longer periods of time?... I do, because I write novels for a living... I'm very, very careful with myself because I don't want anything to disrupt my ability to concentrate on one thing for long periods of time. To that end, I do not watch television under any circumstances, I do not have a cell phone, and I participate in no form of social media. I have never looked at Facebook. That's kind of interesting, because my bookstore has a huge social media presence and I make videos about the books that I'm reading, but I never watch them.

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

Awards and honors

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Bibliography

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Novels

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  • Patchett, Ann (1992). The patron saint of liars. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.
  • — (1994). Taft. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.
  • — (1997). The magician's assistant. New York: Harcourt Brace.
  • — (2001). Bel Canto. New York: HarperCollins.
  • — (2007). Run. New York: HarperLuxe.
  • — (2011). State of wonder. New York: Harper.
  • — (2016). Commonwealth. New York, NY: Harper.
  • — (2019). The Dutch House. New York, NY: Harper.
  • — (2023). Tom Lake. New York, NY: Harper.
  • — (2026). Whistler. New York, NY: Harper.

Children's books

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  • Patchett, Ann (2019). Lambslide. HarperCollins.
  • — (2020). Escape Goat. HarperCollins.
  • — (2024). The Verts. HarperCollins.

Nonfiction

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  • Patchett, Ann (2004). Truth & beauty : a friendship. New York: Harper Collins.
  • — (2008). What now?. New York: Harper.
  • — (2011). The getaway car : a practical memoir about writing and life. Byliner.[a]
  • — (Spring 2011). "The Mercies". Granta. 114.
  • — (2013). This is the story of a happy marriage. New York, NY: Harper.
  • — (2013). "The Mercies". In Henderson, Bill (ed.). The Pushcart Prize XXXVII : best of the small presses 2013. Pushcart Press. pp. 166–181.
  • — (2014). "How knitting saved my life. Twice". In Hood, Ann (ed.). Knitting yarns : writers on knitting. New York: W. W. Norton.
  • — (2021). These precious days : essays. New York: HarperCollins.
  • — (September 2021). "The Portrait Gallery : What the American Academy of Arts and Letters taught me about death". Essay. Harper's Magazine. 343 (2056): 53–55.

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Bibliography notes
  1. ↑ Kellogg, Carolyn (August 29, 2011). "Ann Patchett's lessons on writing, from Byliner". Los Angeles Times.

References

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  1. ↑ French, Rose. "Worlds Collide". The Journal News !date=October 1, 2007. p. 1D.
  2. 1 2 "Biography, Books, Whistler, Tom Lake, Bookstore, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. 2026-07-21. Retrieved 2026-08-04.
  3. 1 2 3 PEN/Faulkner Staff (2002). "Past Winners & Finalists: 2002—Ann Patchett, Bel Canto". penfaulkner.org. Archived from the original on 21 December 2013. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 Mark Brown (April 17, 2012). "Orange Prize 2012 Shortlist Puts Ann Patchett in Running for Second Victory". The Guardian. Retrieved May 14, 2022.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Weich, Dave; Patchett, Ann (June 27, 2001). "Exclusive to Powell's, Author Interviews: Ann Patchett Hits All the Right Notes". Archived from the original on February 4, 2006. Retrieved 2022-05-14.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Dukes, Jessica; Patchett, Ann. "Meet the Writers: Ann Patchett". barnesandnoble.com. Archived from the original on 8 June 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-02.
  7. 1 2 Hart, Jennifer; Patchett, Ann (September 24, 2008). "Book Club Girl Talks With Ann Patchett, Author of Run". Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  8. ↑ Maher, John (May 4, 2020). "Moser, Whitehead, McDaniel, Grandin, Boyer, Brown Win 2020 Pulitzers". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2022-05-14.
  9. ↑ Lesser, Wendy (22 November 2013). "What's In Store". The New York Times. New York. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
  10. 1 2 3 Lundquist, Molly. "State of Wonder - Ann Patchett - Author Biography - LitLovers". www.litlovers.com. Retrieved 2022-05-14.
  11. ↑ Giles, Wanda H.; Bonner, J. H. (2009). Twenty-First-Century American Novelists: Second Series. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 350. Detroit: Gale Cengage Learning. ISBN 9780787681685 – via Literature Resource Center. Ann Patchett
  12. ↑ Kay, Katty. "Why Author Ann Patchett bought a bookshop". BBC News. Retrieved 2025-04-01.
  13. 1 2 Patchett, Ann. "About Ann" (autobiography). annpatchett.com. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  14. ↑ Alex Witchel (2021-11-30). "Ann Patchett Has Thoughts on a Bunch of Subjects". The New York Times. Retrieved 2022-05-14.
  15. ↑ Patchett, Ann (December 2012). "The Bookstore Strikes Back". The Atlantic. Retrieved March 6, 2014.
  16. ↑ Alter, Alexandra (Mar 24, 2016). "Ann Patchett's Nashville Bookstore Hits the Road, With Dogs in Tow". The New York Times. Retrieved 2022-05-14.
  17. ↑ "Ann Patchett". Amazon.com.
  18. ↑ Puig, Claudia. "'A Happy Marriage' weds Patchett's prose to essays". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
  19. ↑ Gyllenhaal, Stephen (1998-04-05), The Patron Saint of Liars, retrieved 2016-11-11
  20. ↑ "The Magician's Assistant". seattlecentral.edu. Retrieved 2016-11-11.
  21. 1 2 NBCC Staff (2001). "All Past National Book Critics Circle Award Winners and Finalists: 2001 Awards, Fiction Finalists". bookcritics.org [National Book Critics Circle]. Archived from the original on 18 October 2015. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  22. ↑ Books, Used, New, and Out of Print Books - We Buy and Sell - Powell's. "Best American Short Stories 2006 by Patchett, Ann". www.powells.com. Retrieved 2016-10-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  23. ↑ "Orange prize shortlist 2012 - in pictures". the Guardian. 2012-04-17. Retrieved 2016-11-11.
  24. ↑ Patchett, Ann (September 8, 2017). "Ann Patchett Calls 'Commonwealth' Her 'Autobiographical First Novel'". NPR.org. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
  25. ↑ Hilboldt Allport, Brandy (4 May 2019). "Read All About It: Patchett tries hand at children's book with 'Lambslide'". The Florida Times-Union. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  26. ↑ "Ann Patchett Explains Why She Had to Totally Rewrite her New Novel 'The Dutch House' And Her Problem with Villains". Time. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  27. ↑ Maher, John (May 4, 2020). "Moser, Whitehead, McDaniel, Grandin, Boyer, Brown Win 2020 Pulitzers". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
  28. ↑ "Combined Print & E-Book Fiction - Best Sellers - Books - The New York Times". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
  29. ↑ "World Book Club - Ann Patchett: The Dutch House - BBC Sounds". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
  30. ↑ "In "These Precious Days," Ann Patchett reflects on her life and art". WYPR. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
  31. ↑ Owens, Ann Marie Deer. "Vanderbilt Libraries host conversation with Moser and Patchett". Vanderbilt University. Retrieved 2019-09-29.
  32. ↑ "Ann Patchett Wins Orange Prize for Fiction 2002". WritersWrite.com. Writers Write Inc. 27 June 2002. Retrieved May 14, 2022.
  33. ↑ "Book Sense Book of the Year - Book awards - LibraryThing". Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  34. ↑ Wellcome Collection Staff (2011). "All books A-Z: State of Wonder, By Ann PatchettS, Shortlist 2011". wellcomebookprize.org [Wellcome Collection's Wellcome Book Prize]. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  35. ↑ Guggenheim Fndn. Staff (1995). "Fellows: Ann Patchett, 1995; Field of Study, Fiction". gf.org [John and Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  36. ↑ Elizabeth Gilbert (April 18, 2012). "The World's 100 Most Influential People, 2012: Ann Patchett, Writer". Time. Archived from the original on April 19, 2012. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  37. ↑ Watts, James D. Jr. (March 30, 2014). "Ann Patchett is 2014 Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award Recipient". Tulsa World. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  38. ↑ "Kenyon Review for Literary Achievement". KenyonReview.org. Archived from the original on 2018-01-09. Retrieved 2017-08-20.
  39. ↑ "2017 Newly Elected Members – American Academy of Arts and Letters". artsandletters.org. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
  40. ↑ "New 2020 Members Announced". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2020-05-13.
  41. ↑ "Ann Patchett | National Endowment for the Humanities". www.neh.gov. Retrieved 2026-06-21.
  42. ↑ "Chance the Rapper, Ann Patchett and Cristina Henríquez win 2024 Library Foundation awards". Chicago Tribune. 2024-06-25. Retrieved 2024-06-26.
  43. ↑ "Meet the 2024 Library Foundation Award Honorees". Chicago Public Library Foundation. Retrieved 2024-06-26.
  44. ↑ "2026 Literary Gala Honorees Announced: Novelist and Essayist Ann Patchett and Oscar-Nominated Film Producer Jason Blum". PEN America. 2025-12-02. Retrieved 2025-12-05.
  45. ↑ "2026 Awards – Dayton Literary Peace Prize". Retrieved 2026-06-21.
  46. ↑ "Ann Patchett to Receive 2026 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction". Library of Congress newsroom. June 23, 2026. Retrieved June 24, 2026.

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