Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett is an American author whose novels include The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft, The Magician's Assistant, Run, State of Wonder, Commonwealth, The Dutch House and Tom Lake. Her novel Bel Canto won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2002, and she also wrote the memoir Truth and Beauty about Lucy Grealy's death from cancer. Born in Los Angeles, she moved to Nashville, Tennessee as a child.