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Ann Patty

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Ann Patty worked in New York trade publishing for more than thirty years. She was the founder and publisher of The Poseidon Press and an executive editor at Crown Publishers and Harcourt. Her first discovery as an editor was V. C. Andrews’ Flowers in the Attic. Other highlights of her career include the US hardcover debuts of: George R. R. Martin, Graham Swift, Mary Gaitskill, Patrick McGrath, Clive Barker, Frank Zappa, Michael Moore, Siri Hustvedt, and Kristin Hannah. She was the editor of Steven Millhauser’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Martin Dressler, and Yann Martel’s Booker Prize-winning Life of Pi.

In 2008 she became a freelance editor and began studying Latin, which she continues to do. She teaches Latin to teenagers at her local library i ...more

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Living with a Dead Language: My Romance with Latin

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“It is astonishing how much enjoyment one can get out of a language that one understands imperfectly. —Basil Gildersleeve D”
― Ann Patty, Living with a Dead Language: My Romance with Latin

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