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Ann Patchett is the author of three previous novels, The Patron Saint
of Liars, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year;
Taft, which won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize; and The Magician's
Assistant, which earned her a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1994.
She is also a recipient of the Nashville Banner
Tennessee Writer of the Year Award. Patchett has written for many publications,
including New York Times Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Village Voice,
GQ, Elle, Gourmet, and Vogue.
Patchett attended Sarah Lawrence College,
where she took writing classes with Alan Gurganus, Russell Banks, and
Grace Paley.
While an undergraduate, she sold her first
story to the Paris Review. Patchett then went on to attend the
University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, and in 1990, she won a residential
fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Here she wrote her first novel, The Patron
Saint of Liars, which was awarded a James A. Michner/Copernicus Award
for a book in progress.
The Patron Saint of Liars was adapted
into a TV movie for CBS in 1997, and Patchett wrote the screenplay for
Taft, which has been optioned by Morgan Freeman for a feature film.
Patchett lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
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