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Purchase Bel Canto here.
Purchase Run here.
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The Kratz Center for Creative Writing at Goucher College is honored to welcome the bestselling novelist and memoirist Ann Patchett as the Fall 2010 Visiting Author. Ann Patchett will read from her work on Wednesday September 29, 2010 at 8 PM at the Kraushaar Auditorium, sign copies of her books, and meet informally with students, faculty, and members of the community. The event is free to the public, but reservations should be made at 410-337-6333 or boxoffice@goucher.edu. About the Kratz Center's Fall 2010 Event
About Ann Patchett: Ann Patchett 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, 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. She is a native of Nashville, Tennessee where she continues to reside with her husband, Dr. Karl VanDevender, an internationally regarded surgeon. Fiction writing runs in Ann Patchett's family: her mother is the novelist Jeanne Ray. She received an undergraduate degree from Sarah Lawrence College where she studied fiction with Allan Gurganus, Russell Banks, and Grace Paley, and a graduate degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her novel TAFT won the 1994 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize in fiction. Her memoir TRUTH & BEAUTY: A FRIENDSHIP chronicles her friendship with the writer Lucy Grealy. Visit Ann Patchett' website here.
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