Anne Lamott





Anne Lamott

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April 10, 1954 in San Francisco, California, The United States

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Anne Lamott is an author of several novels and works of non-fiction. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, her non-fiction works are largely autobiographical, with strong doses of self-deprecating humor and covering such subjects as alcoholism, single motherhood, and Christianity. She appeals to her fans because of her sense of humor, her deeply felt insights, and her outspoken views on topics such as her left-of-center politics and her unconventional Christian faith. She is a graduate of Drew College Preparatory School in San Francisco, California. Her father, Kenneth Lamott, was also a writer and was the basis of her first novel Hard Laughter.

Lamott's life is documented in Freida Lee Mock's 1999 documentary Bird by Bird: A Film...more


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Average rating: 3.94 · 59,114 ratings · 7,110 reviews · 28 distinct works
Bird by Bird: Some Instruction...
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 16,868 ratings — published 1994 — 11 editions
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Traveling Mercies: Some Though...
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Operating Instructions: A Jour...
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 6,541 ratings — published 1993 — 6 editions
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Plan B: Further Thoughts on Fa...
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 6,018 ratings — published 2004 — 13 editions
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Grace [Eventually]: Thoughts o...
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 4,947 ratings13 editions
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Blue Shoe
3.19 of 5 stars 3.19 avg rating — 3,396 ratings12 editions
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Crooked Little Heart
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 2,154 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions
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Imperfect Birds
3.14 of 5 stars 3.14 avg rating — 2,102 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions
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Rosie
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Hard Laughter
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 1,050 ratings — published 1979 — 5 editions
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“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
Anne Lamott

“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.”
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
Anne Lamott

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