She currently lives in Nashville with her husband, Karl VanDevender, and their dog Sparky. This was a riveting story that brings to the fore a lot of moral dilemas as well our deep and profound beliefs. Her books have been translated into more than 30 languages.Īfter winning numerous literary awards and being on bestseller lists, Ann co-founded her own bookstore, Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee with Karen Hayes. State of Wonder by master storyteller, Ann Patchett, was an exciting book taking place in Brazil where a United States pharmaceutical company has sent several of their physicians involved in research in the Amazon rainforest. Her first children's book came in 2019, Lambslide, and was beautifully illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser. Three of her books are non-fiction.Truth and Beauty, What Now?, and This is the Story of a Happy Marriage. It was Provincetown where she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars, followed by Taft, The Magician's Assistant, Bel Canto, Run, State of Wonder, and Commonwealth. Her mother remarried and moved the family to Nashville, Tennessee in 1969.Īnn attended St Bernard Academy school for girls in Nashville, then attended Sarah Lawrence College, followed by the Iowa Writer's Workshop at University of Iowa and Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She was born in Los Angeles, California in 1963 to a police captain and a nurse, who divorced when Ann was a young girl. American author, Ann Patchett, is one of those people. It seems that some people are just natural born authors.
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