Ann Patchett (born December 2, 1963) is an American author. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction and PEN/Faulkner award in 2002 for her novel Bel Canto. Her other novels include The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft, and The Magician's Assistant, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She has also written for many publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Elle, GQ, The Paris Review, Gourmet, and Vogue. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and received the Nashville Banner Tennessee Writer of the Year Award in 1994. December 2 is the 336th day of the year (337th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Orange Prize for Fiction is one of the United Kingdoms most prestigious literary prizes, awarded annually for the best original full-length novel by a female author of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK in the preceding year. ... The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to an American author. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Bel Canto is a 2001 novel by American author Ann Patchett, published by Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. ...

She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is known for her friendship with fellow writer Lucy Grealy, and has written a memoir about their relationship entitled Truth & Beauty. Sarah Lawrence College is a private, liberal arts college located in metropolitan New York City, about a thirty-minute train ride north of Manhattan. ... The Program in Creative Writing, more commonly known as the Iowa Writers Workshop, at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa is a prestigious college and graduate-level creative writing program in the United States. ... Lucinda Margaret Grealy was a memoirist and poet who wrote Autobiography of a Face (1994). ...

Patchett is the editor of the 2006 volume of the anthology series, The Best American Short Stories. The Best American Short Stories yearly anthology is a part of the Best American Series published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. ...

External links

• Interview with Ann Patchett