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Ann Patchett

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Born: December 01 1963

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Patchett was born in Los Angeles, California. Her mother is the novelist Jeanne Ray.

She moved to Nashville, Tennessee when she was six, where she continues to live. Patchett said she loves her home in Nashville with her doctor husband and dog. If asked if she could go any place, that place would always be home. "Home is ...the stable window that opens out into the imagination."

Patchett attended high school at St. Bernard Academy, a private, non-parochial Catholic school for girls run by the Sisters of Mercy. Following graduation, she attended Sarah Lawrence College and took fiction writing classes with Allan Gurganus, Russell Banks, and Grace Paley. She later attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she met longtime friend Elizabeth McCracken. It was also there that she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars.

In 2010, when she found that her hometown of Nashville no longer had a good book store, she co-founded Parnassus Books with Karen Hayes; the store opened in November 2011. In 2012, Patchett was on the Time 100 list of most influential people in the world by TIME magazine.

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Ann Patchett

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Books from Ann Patchett

Bel Canto

State of Wonder

Commonwealth

The Dutch House

Run

Truth & Beauty

The Patron Saint of Liars

The Magician's Assistant

This is the Story of a Happy Marriage

These Precious Days: Essays

The Public Library: A Photographic Essay

Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases

Dog is My Co-Pilot: Great Writers on the World's Oldest Friendship

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The Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels

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