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A bestselling, prizewinning novel by
a living author for whom this work
was a game–changer
.
Ann Patchett is the author of six novels:
State of Wonder
; the
New York Times
bestselling
Run
;
The Patron Saint of Liars
,
which was a
New York Times
Notable Book of the Year;
Taft
,
which won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize;
The Magician’s
Assistant
; and
Bel Canto
, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award,
the Orange Prize, the BookSense Book of the Year, and was a
finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also
the author of two works of nonfiction: the
New York Times
bestselling
Truth & Beauty
and
What now?
Patchett has written
for many publications, including the
Atlantic Monthly
,
Harper’s
Magazine
,
Gourmet
,
The New York Times
,
Vogue
, and the
Washington Post
. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR