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Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie has been included in four O. Henry Award Collections and in John Updike's Best American Short Stories of the Century. In 2000, she received the PEN/Malamud Award for achievement in the short story form. In 2005, she received the Rea Award for the Short Story. She and her husband,... show more

Ann Beattie has been included in four O. Henry Award Collections and in John Updike's Best American Short Stories of the Century. In 2000, she received the PEN/Malamud Award for achievement in the short story form. In 2005, she received the Rea Award for the Short Story. She and her husband, Lincoln Perry, live in Key West, Florida, and Charlottesville, Virginia, where she is Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia.
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Birth date: September 08, 1947
Category:
Literature & Fiction, Short Stories
Ann Beattie's Books
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales - Francine Prose, Ursula K. Le Guin, A.S. Byatt, Lucy Grealy, Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Beattie, Julia Alvarez, Lydia Millet, Fay Weldon, Bell Hooks, Rosellen Brown, Vivian Gornick, Deborah Eisenberg, Patricia Foster, Linda Gray Sexton, Terri Windling, Alice Adams, Kathryn Dav The Best American Short Stories of the Century - John Updike, Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud, Martha Gellhorn, Vladimir Nabokov, Gish Jen, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, Cynthia Ozick, Tim O'Brien, Harold Brodkey, Robert Penn Warren, Joyce Carol Oates, Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, William Saroyan, Saul Bellow Chilly Scenes of Winter - Ann Beattie Walks With Men: Fiction - Ann Beattie The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction - Edward P. Jones, John Updike, Edmund White, Annie Proulx, E.L. Doctorow, Mary Gaitskill, Elizabeth McCracken, Lydia Davis, Russell Banks, George Saunders, Tim O'Brien, Chuck Palahniuk, Michael Chabon, Joyce Carol Oates, Lorrie Moore, Amy Hempel, Charles Baxter, Jhumpa Lah The State We're In: Maine Stories - Ann Beattie The Granta Book of the American Short Story - John Updike, Bernard Malamud, Raymond Carver, James Baldwin, Jayne Anne Phillips, David Leavitt, Wallace Stegner, Tim O'Brien, Harold Brodkey, Robert Penn Warren, Leonard Michaels, Joyce Carol Oates, Lorrie Moore, Flannery O'Connor, Tobias Wolff, Kurt Vonnegut, Amy Tan, T Follies - Ann Beattie McSweeney's #23 - Dave Eggers, Ann Beattie, Chris Bachelder, Caren Beilin, Roddy Doyle, McSweeney's Publishing McSweeney's #16 - Dave Eggers, Ann Beattie, Robert Coover Falling in Place - Ann Beattie, Robin Desser The Burning House - Ann Beattie, Robin Desser Distortions - Ann Beattie Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver - Raymond Carver, Ann Beattie, Tess Gallagher, Bob Adelman Ploughshares Fall, 1995: Living Rooms - Ann Beattie Hoodie in Xanadu - Ann Beattie Flesh and Blood: Photographers' Images of Their Own Families - Ann Beattie, Andy Grundberg, Alice Rose George, Abigail Heyman, Ethan Hoffman Love Always - Ann Beattie Park City: New and Selected Stories - Ann Beattie Ploughshares Fall 2000 Guest-Edited by Gish Jen - Ann Beattie, Peter Ho Davies, Tom Drury, Pamela Painter, Jess Row, Lysley A. Tenorio, Esmeralda Santiago, Moira Crone, Sabina Murray, Gish Jen
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At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women - Sally Mann, Ann Beattie
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Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver - Raymond Carver, Ann Beattie, Tess Gallagher, Bob Adelman
The State We're In: Maine Stories - Ann Beattie
The Granta Book of the American Short St... The Granta Book of the American Short Story, Volume Two - Richard Ford, Eudora Welty, Andre Dubus, Robert Stone, Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, Bharati Mukherjee, Stuart Dybek, Barry Hannah, Joy Williams, Robert Olen Butler, Thom Jones, John Cheever, Richard Bausch, Tobias Wolff, Deborah Eisenberg, Ann Beattie, T.C. Boyle, D
Falling in Place - Ann Beattie
Love Always - Ann Beattie
The Burning House - Ann Beattie
Walks With Men: Fiction - Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie's readers
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Brenna M's Book Blog
Brenna M's Book Blog rated it 9 years ago
text The State We're In by Ann Beattie
The State We're In Ann Beattie Hardcover, 224 Published August 11th 2015 by Scribner ISBN 150110781X (ISBN13: 9781501107818) also available as audio and kindle editions Some of the stories I enjoyed, like Silent Prayer. Others were good, but I wasn't so thrilled with open endings ...
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Michelle
Michelle rated it 11 years ago
text a novel about nothing
“A master chronicler of our life and times." —Newsday"A very funny book. . . . If Jane Austen had been crossed with Oscar Wilde and re-crossed with the early Evelyn Waugh, and the result plonked down among the semi-beautiful people of late 20th-century media-fringe America . . . the outcome might ha...
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TCWriter
TCWriter rated it 11 years ago
text Brook Trout and the Writing Life: The Intermingling of Fishing and Writing in a Novelist's Life
This is a new, not-yet-released version of the too-short original (the publicist told me it was 1/3 longer than the first version, published in 1999 by Lyons Press).
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Lisa (Harmony)
Lisa (Harmony) rated it 11 years ago
text The Best American Short Stories of the Century
The title is a misnomer. Not that there aren't some wonderful stories here, but they were never really chosen because they're the best American short stories of the 20th century. Rather, these are Updike's 56 picks out of the 2,000 stories originally chosen in the 84 volumes of a yearly anthology pu...
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mtw1tter
mtw1tter rated it 13 years ago
text Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life
Magnificent! Such deconstruction! Such insights! Unfortunately it's not performance art, much less art installation. Totally fails in whatever genre it was trying to pigeonhole itself into and in this case, the author isn't dead either.
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