page_title: Ann Patchett
section_title: Writing
hierarchical_section_title: Ann Patchett / Writing
caption_attribution_description: Español: La escritora estadounidense Ann Patchett en la Feria Internacional del Libro de Miami 2014 English: American author Ann Patchett at the Miami Book Fair International 2014
context_page_description: Ann Patchett is an American author. She received the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction in the same year, for her novel Bel Canto. Patchett's other novels include The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft, The Magician's Assistant, Run, State of Wonder, Commonwealth, and The Dutch House. The Dutch House was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
context_section_description: Patchett's first published work was in The Paris Review, where she published a story before she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College.
  For nine years, Patchett worked at Seventeen magazine, where she wrote primarily non-fiction and the magazine published one of every five articles she wrote. She ended her relationship with the magazine after getting into a dispute with an editor and exclaiming, "I’ll never darken your door again!"
  Patchett has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, O, The Oprah Magazine, ELLE, GQ, Gourmet, and Vogue.
  In 1992, Patchett published The Patron Saint of Liars. The novel was made into a television movie of the same title in 1998. Her second novel Taft won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize in fiction in 1994. Her third novel, The Magician’s Assistant, was released in 1997. In 2001, her fourth novel Bel Canto was her breakthrough, becoming a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and winning the PEN/Faulkner Award.
  A friend of writer Lucy Grealy, Patchett has written a memoir about their relationship, Truth and Beauty: A Friendship. Patchett's novel, Run, was released in October 2007. What now?, published in April 2008, is an essay based on a commencement speech she delivered at her alma mater in 2006.
  Patchett is the editor of the 2006 volume of the anthology series The Best American Short Stories. In 2011, she published State of Wonder, a novel set in the Amazon jungle, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize.
  In 2019, Patchett published her first children's book, Lambslide, and the novel The Dutch House.
caption: Patchett at the Miami Book Fair International 2014
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