ANN PATCHETT

Ann Patchett writes fiction that tracks the long, tangled consequences of single moments across the lives of disparate characters. Born in Los Angeles in 1963 and raised in Nashville, she studied at Sarah Lawrence College and earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her 2001 novel Bel Canto won both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction, establishing her as one of the leading American novelists of her generation. Commonwealth, published in 2016, is her seventh novel.