Ann Patchett was born in Los Angeles in 1963. She is the author of Taft, The Magician’s Assistant and Bel Canto for which she won the Orange Prize 2002. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Nashville Banner Tennessee Writer of the Year Award. She has also written for numerous publications including, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, Vogue, GQ, Elle and Gourmet. Ann Patchett lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Her new novel State of Wonder is published by Bloomsbury
Ann Patchett in the news
THE PATRON SAINT OF LIARS
Winner of the 2002 Orange Prize for her novel ‘Bel Canto’, Ann Patchett’s stunning first novel is about ‘pilgrimage and healing…A fairytale. A delight’.
Publication date: UK 4th Oct 2010
TAFT
Ann Patchett’s second novel to be published in the UK, following the Orange Prize-shortlisted ‘The Magician’s Assistant’.
Publication date: UK 21st May 2010
TRUTH AND BEAUTY: A Friendship
Bestselling author and Orange Prize winner Ann Patchett’s first work of non-fiction is a searing, emotionally wrenching account of her long friendship with the critically acclaimed, and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy.
Publication date: UK 1st Aug 2005
THE MAGICIAN’S ASSISTANT
Third – and breakthrough – novel by an acclaimed American writer with an enchanting, quirky voice. ‘The Magician’s Assistant’ is at once a love story and a brilliant portrayal of reinvention about a magician who dies leaving his assistant/wife to discover he has lied about his past.
Publication date: UK 5th Aug 2002
BEL CANTO
The poignant – and at times very funny – new novel from the author of ‘The Magician’s Assistant’, shortlisted for the Orange Prize.
Publication date: UK 30th Apr 2002