Patchett has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including England’s Orange Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Harold D.
In 2019, she published her first children’s book, Lambslide, illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser. She was the editor of Best American Short Stories, 2006, and has written three books of nonfiction- Truth & Beauty, about her friendship with the writer Lucy Grealy What Now?, an expansion of her graduation address at Sarah Lawrence College and This is the Story of a Happy Marriage, a collection of essays examining the theme of commitment. Sponsored by the Eudora Welty Foundation, this recorded lecture celebrates creative origins shared in the spirit of Welty’s treasured One Writer’s Beginnings.Īnn Patchett is the author of seven novels: The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft, The Magician’s Assistant, Bel Canto, Run, State of Wonder, and Commonwealth. Patchett’s collection of essays, These Precious Days, will be published by Harper Collins in 2021 and this lecture, “The Nightstand,” will be included. We invite you into this intimate moment steeped in literary history. After touring the home and gardens in communion with Welty’s spirit, Patchett ended the tour in the living room where she delivered this lecture and conversation.
In June 2021, Ann Patchett travelled from her home in Nashville, Tennessee to visit the home museum of Eudora Welty in Jackson, Mississippi.
The Dutch House is another wonderful read by an author who embodies compassion.” - NPR but for becoming a patron saint of readers and publishers. “ Ann Patchett may well be the most beloved book person in America - not just for her irresistibly absorbing novels and memoirs.
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