Ann Patchett is an American novelist and essayist. She was born on December 2nd, 1963 in Los Angeles, California. After her parents divorced, her mother moved Ann and her sister to Tennessee; Ann was six at the time.
Patchett graduated from Sarah Lawrence with a B.A. in 1984, and she earned an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1987. She has held teaching positions at several colleges and universities, one of those positions being the Tennessee Williams Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of the South.
After spending time in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Patchett published her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars, in 1992. It was well-received and turned into a television...
