| 39,531 (45,986) | 2,021 | 369 | (3.88) | 163 | 0 | Ann Patchett was born on December 2, 1963. She received the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2002 for her novel Bel Canto. Her other novels include The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft, The Magician's Assistant, and State of Wonder. She has also written several nonfiction works including Truth and Beauty: A Friendship, The Getaway Car, The Bookshop Strikes Back, and This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage. Ann's title's Commonweatlth and The Patron Saint of Liars made the New York Time bestseller list. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Bel Canto … (more) |
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Ann Patchett has 99 past events. (show)  Sunday NovelTea: The Dutch House
March 2019 Meeting Join us for a bite to eat as we discuss our March group read Commonwealth by Ann Patchett. Meetings are held in the Panera Bread Community Room in the Charleston Town Center Mall, lower level across from the Charleston Civic Center. Books are available at the Kanawha County Public Library - Main at the Reference Desk. Just ask for the Mall Book Group read. Discussions are generally led by librarians (active or retired) from the Kanawha County Public Library. All meetings are for one hour, from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM. (BookDivasReads)… (more)
An Evening with Ann Patchett We are pleased to welcome one of our favorite authors, Ann Patchett, back to the store to celebrate her latest novel, Commonwealth. Ann will visit the store on Friday, October 21st from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. for hors d'oeuvres at Stafford's Perry Hotel in the Rose Room. This is a ticketed event and reservations are required. For more information, or to reserve your space, please contact us at 231.347.1180 or send us an email. Tickets can be purchased below through our website, in-store or via phone. (night_owl13)… (more)Event location: Stafford's Perry Hotel
Writers Read Reading Group: This is the Story of a Happy Marriage Left Bank Books Join us for a reading group discussion of This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett! Blending literature and memoir, Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto, examines her deepest commitments – to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband – creating a resonant portrait of a life in This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage.
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Location: Street: Left Bank Books Additional: 399 N. Euclid Ave. City: Saint Louis, Province: Missouri Postal Code: 63108 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
 VB Reads...Motherhood by the Book Motherhood by the Book is led by Claire, VB staffer, mother of a toddler, and stepmother of an adolescent. The book group meets on the second Sunday of every month at 2pm on the mezzanine level, next to our poetry section and near the Book Fare Cafe, for an hour of spirited discussion of books that celebrate the trials, tribulations, and rewards of motherhood, and what it means to be a mother. This group is by no means exclusive to moms with kids still at home, but much of the selection may be geared toward issues that those moms face. We will read fiction, non-fiction, and parenting books.
Sunday, June 14, 2pm
The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
St. Elizabeth’s, a home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky, usually harbors its residents for only a little while. Until Rose Clinton, a beautiful, mysterious woman comes to the home pregnant but not unwed, and stays. She plans to give up her child, thinking she cannot be the mother it needs. But when Cecilia is born, Rose makes a place for herself and her daughter amid St. Elizabeth’s extended family of nuns.
Location: Street: 1200 11th St City: Bellingham, Province: Washington Postal Code: 98225-7015 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
Ann Patchett will be promoting This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Ann Patchett will be promoting This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Ann Patchett will be promoting This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Ann Patchett will be promoting This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Ann Patchett will be promoting This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
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Canonical name | | Legal name | | Other names | | Date of birth | | Date of death | | Burial location | | Gender | | Nationality | | Country (for map) | | Birthplace | | Place of death | | Cause of death | | Places of residence | | Education | | Occupations | | Relationships | | Organizations | | Awards and honors | | Agents | | Short biography | Ann Patchett was born in Los Angeles in 1963 and raised in Nashville. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. In 1990, she won a residential fellowship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars. It was named a New York Times Notable Book for 1992. In 1993, she received a Bunting Fellowship from the Mary Ingrahm Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College. Patchett's second novel, Taft, was awarded the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for the best work of fiction in 1994. Her third novel, The Magician's Assistant, was short-listed for England's Orange Prize and earned her a Guggenheim Fellowship.Her next novel, Bel Canto, won both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in 2002, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was named the Book Sense Book of the Year. It sold more than a million copies in the United States and has been translated into thirty languages. In 2004, Patchett published Truth & Beauty, a memoir of her friendship with the writer Lucy Grealy. It was named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Entertainment Weekly. Truth & Beauty was also a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and won the Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize, the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Alex Award from the American Library Association. She was also the editor of Best American Short Stories 2006.Patchett has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times magazine, Harper's, The Atlantic,The Washington Post, Gourmet, and Vogue. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband, Karl VanDevender.  | |
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