The novel was made into a television movie of the same title in 1998. In 1992, Patchett published The Patron Saint of Liars. Patchett has written for numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, O, The Oprah Magazine, ELLE, GQ, Gourmet, and Vogue. She ended her relationship with the magazine after getting into a dispute with an editor and exclaiming, 'I’ll never darken your door again!'

įor nine years, Patchett worked at Seventeen magazine, where she wrote primarily non-fiction and the magazine published one of every five articles she wrote.

Patchett's first published work was in The Paris Review, a story that appeared before she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. Patchett at the Miami Book Fair International 2014 Patchett currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband, Karl VanDevender. In 2016, Parnassus Books expanded, adding a bookmobile to expand the reach of the bookstore in Nashville. In 2010, she co-founded a bookstore with Karen Hayes, Parnassus Books, in Nashville, Tennessee, which opened in November 2011. Their time as roommates and their life-long friendship was the subject of her 2004 memoir Truth & Beauty. She later attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, where she lived with the memoirist and poet Lucy Grealy. In her late twenties, Patchett won a fellowship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts during her time there, she wrote her first novel The Patron Saint of Liars, which was published in 1992. In her early twenties Patchett married however, the marriage lasted only about a year. Following graduation, she attended Sarah Lawrence College. Bernard Academy, a private Catholic school for girls in Nashville, Tennessee run by the Sisters of Mercy. Her mother remarried, and when Patchett was six years old the family moved to Nashville, Tennessee. Her mother and father divorced when she was young. Biography Īnn Patchett was born on Decemin Los Angeles, California to Frank Patchett (a Los Angeles police captain who arrested Charles Manson and Sirhan Sirhan ) and Jeanne Ray (a nurse who later became a novelist). The Dutch House was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Patchett's other novels include The Patron Saint of Liars (1992), Taft (1994), The Magician's Assistant (1997), Run (2007), State of Wonder (2011), Commonwealth (2016), and The Dutch House (2019).

She received the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction in the same year, for her novel Bel Canto. Ann Patchett (born December 2, 1963) is an American author.

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett