Ann Patchett




 

Ann Patchett

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born
December 02, 1963

gender
female

place of birth
Los Angeles, California, United States

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genre
Literature & Fiction


about this author

Ann Patchett is an American author. She received the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2002 for her novel Bel Canto. Patchett's other novels include The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft, and The Magician's Assistant, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and received the Nashville Banner Tennessee Writer of the Year Award in 1994.





books by Ann Patchett

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avg rating: 3.78 | 25147 ratings | 11 distinct works
Bel Canto Bel Canto (Paperback)
by Ann Patchett
avg rating 3.87 — 12909 ratings — published 2001
29 editions
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Truth & Beauty: A Friendship Truth & Beauty: A Friendship (Paperback)
by Ann Patchett
avg rating 3.93 — 2841 ratings — published 2004
11 editions
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Run Run (Hardcover)
by Ann Patchett
avg rating 3.49 — 2701 ratings — published 2008
13 editions
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The Magician's Assistant The Magician's Assistant (Paperback)
by Ann Patchett
avg rating 3.65 — 1798 ratings — published 2009
7 editions
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The Patron Saint of Liars The Patron Saint of Liars (Paperback)
by Ann Patchett
avg rating 3.68 — 1701 ratings — published 2003
9 editions
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Taft: A Novel Taft: A Novel (Paperback)
by Ann Patchett
avg rating 3.18 — 347 ratings — published 2003
7 editions
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The Best American Short Storie... The Best American Short Stories (The Best American Series 2006)
by Ann Patchett
avg rating 3.65 — 250 ratings — published 2006
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What Now? What Now? (Hardcover)
by Ann Patchett
avg rating 3.48 — 126 ratings — published 2008
2 editions
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O. Henry Prize Stories O. Henry Prize Stories (Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards)
by Laura Furman
avg rating 4.00 — 1 ratings — published 2005
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One Hundred Portraits: Artists... One Hundred Portraits: Artists, Architects, Writers, Composers, and Friends (Hardcover)
by Barry Moser
avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2008
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Regarding Emma: Photographs of... Regarding Emma: Photographs of American Women and Girls (Hardcover)
by Melissa Ann Pinney
avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2003
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quotes by Ann Patchett

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"It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how."
Ann Patchett (Bel Canto)
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"Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. . . . It's a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are a spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world's greatest soprano. Not everyone can be an artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see."
Ann Patchett
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"I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time and space to work, but someone who wrote as a course of life. Maybe writing wouldn't have any rewards. Maybe the salvation I would gain through work would only be emotional and intellectual. Wouldn't that be enough, to be a waitress who found an hour or two hidden in every day to write?"
Ann Patchett (Truth and Beauty)
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