![]() ![]() ![]() In 2012, Patchett was on the Time 100 list of most influential people in the world by TIME magazine. 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. It was also there that she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars. 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. Following graduation, she attended Sarah Lawrence College and took fiction writing classes with Allan Gurganus, Russell Banks, and Grace Paley. Bernard Academy, a private, non-parochial Catholic school for girls run by the Sisters of Mercy. Ann Patchett’s heroine, on the trail of a reclusive scientist in the Amazon, faces demons real and imagined. the stable window that opens out into the imagination." If asked if she could go any place, that place would always be home. Patchett said she loves her home in Nashville with her doctor husband and dog. She moved to Nashville, Tennessee when she was six, where she continues to live. ![]() In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. Patchett was born in Los Angeles, California. In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers. ![]()
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