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Ann Patchett

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American novelist and memoirist

United StatesWritersBorn 1963 · age 62
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Ann Patchett is an American author. In 2002 she received the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel Bel Canto.

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In , talked about how she spent her childhood thinking that real life would start after the surgeries stopped.

(257 pages)

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The years spent in the freelance trenches eventually paid off; I would go on to have some remarkable assignments.

(320 pages; collection of nonfiction essays)

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We were all standing there waiting on the photographer,” my father told me later on the phone. “And Mike said, ‘You know what she’s doing, don’t you?

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Awards 6

2021National Humanities Medal
2014Helmerich Award
2002PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
2002Women's Prize for Fiction
1995Guggenheim Fellowship
1994Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize

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Ann Patchett is an American author. In 2002 she received the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction 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). The Dutch House was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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United States
Category
Writers
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Writer / Author
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living
Dates
Born 1963 · age 62
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25 languages

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