Ann Patchett






Ann Patchett

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born
December 02, 1963

gender
female

place of birth
Los Angeles, California, The United States

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Literature & Fiction


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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.





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avg rating: 3.74 | 45,371 ratings | 7,391 reviews | 14 distinct works | 102 fans
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
by George Orwell, Ann Patchett (Foreword)
avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 1945
230 editions
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Bel Canto Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
avg rating 3.84 — 23,093 ratings — published 2001
32 editions
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Run Run
by Ann Patchett
avg rating 3.46 — 6,642 ratings — published 2007
16 editions
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Truth & Beauty: A Friendship Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
by Ann Patchett
avg rating 3.90 — 4,548 ratings — published 2004
15 editions
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The Magician's Assistant The Magician's Assistant
by Ann Patchett
avg rating 3.61 — 3,286 ratings — published 1997
8 editions
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The Patron Saint of Liars The Patron Saint of Liars
by Ann Patchett
avg rating 3.65 — 3,169 ratings — published 1992
9 editions
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Taft: A Novel Taft: A Novel
by Ann Patchett
avg rating 3.26 — 588 ratings — published 1994
7 editions
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The Best American Short Storie... The Best American Short Stories 2006
by Ann Patchett (Editor), Katrina Kenison (Series Editor)
avg rating 3.67 — 349 ratings — published 2006
2 editions
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What Now? What Now?
by Ann Patchett
avg rating 3.43 — 295 ratings — published 2008
3 editions
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Dog Is My Co-Pilot: Great Writ... Dog Is My Co-Pilot: Great Writers on the World's Oldest Friendship
by Bark Editors, Claudia Kawczynska (Editor), Cameron Woo (Editor), Alice Walker (Contributor), Caroline Knapp (Contributor), Elena Sigman (Contributor), Ann Patchett (Contributor), Maxine Kumin (Contributor) more...
avg rating 3.96 — 119 ratings — published 2003
2 editions
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One Hundred Portraits: Artists... One Hundred Portraits: Artists, Architects, Writers, Composers, and Friends
by Barry Moser, Ann Patchett
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2008
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O. Henry Prize Stories O. Henry Prize Stories
by Laura Furman, Ann Patchett, Cristina Garcia
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 2005
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21st 21st
by John Wood, Philip Trager (Photographer), Greg Gorman (Photographer), Christopher Bucklow (Photographer), Flor Garduno (Photographer), Robert Stivers (Photographer), Brigitte Carnochan (Photographer), Toni Catany (Photographer) more...
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2003
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Regarding Emma: Photographs of... Regarding Emma: Photographs of American Women and Girls
by Melissa Ann Pinney, Ann Patchett
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2003
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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 (Bel Canto)
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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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