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Ann Patchett (born December 2, 1963) is an American author. She received the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2002 for her novel ''Bel Canto''. Patchett's other novels include ''Run'', ''The Patron Saint of Liars'', ''Taft'', ''State of Wonder'', and ''The Magician's Assistant'', which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and received the ''Nashville Banner'' Tennessee Writer of the Year Award in 1994. ==Biography== Patchett was born in Los Angeles, California. Her mother is the novelist Jeanne Ray. Her father, Frank Patchett, who died in 2012 and had been long divorced from her mother, served as a Los Angeles police officer for 33 years, and had participated in the arrests of both Charles Manson and Sirhan Sirhan. She moved to Nashville, Tennessee when she was six, where she continues to live. Patchett said she loves her home in Nashville with her doctor husband and dog. If asked if she could go any place, that place would always be home. "Home is ...the stable window that opens out into the imagination.: Patchett attended high school at St. Bernard Academy, a private Catholic school for girls run by the Sisters of Mercy. Following graduation, she attended Sarah Lawrence College and took fiction writing classes with Allan Gurganus, Russell Banks, and Grace Paley. She later attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she met longtime friend Elizabeth McCracken.〔 It was also there that she wrote her first novel, ''The Patron Saint of Liars''. In 2010, when she found that her hometown of Nashville no longer had a good book store, she co-founded Parnassus Books with Karen Hayes; the store opened in November 2011. In 2012, Patchett was on the Time 100 list of most influential people in the world by ''TIME'' magazine. She is a vegan for "both moral and health reasons." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ann Patchett」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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