Ann Patchett
American novelist and memoirist · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1963 · age 62
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.
Ann Patchett is read about 1,427 times a day, in 25 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 120 days, one point a day.
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, In , talked about how she spent her childhood thinking that real life would start after the surgeries stopped.
The years spent in the freelance trenches eventually paid off; I would go on to have some remarkable assignments.
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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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.
