In 2012, Patchett was on the Time 100 list of most influential people in the world by TIME magazine. In 2010, when she found that her hometown of Nashville no longer had a good book store, she co-founded Parnassus Books with Karen Hayes the store opened in November 2011. It was also there that she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars. She later attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she met longtime friend Elizabeth McCracken. Following graduation, she attended Sarah Lawrence College and took fiction writing classes with Allan Gurganus, Russell Banks, and Grace Paley. Bernard Academy, a private, non-parochial Catholic school for girls run by the Sisters of Mercy. the stable window that opens out into the imagination.' If asked if she could go any place, that place would always be home. Patchett said she loves her home in Nashville with her doctor husband and dog. She moved to Nashville, Tennessee when she was six, where she continues to live. A-' - Entertainment Weekly, Beautifully written.Patchett has produced a first novel that second-and third-time novelists would envy for its grace, insight, and compassion.Patchett was born in Los Angeles, California. Ann Patchett has produced a first novel that second- and third-time novelists would envy for its grace, insight, and compassion.' - Boston Herald 'A wonderful novel. Ann Patchett is unique: a generous, fearless, and startlingly wise young writer.' - New York Times Book Review 'Beautifully written. Maybe the Patron Saint of Liars really is a sign from God.' -Carolyn See 'A delight.' -Alice McDermott, New York Times ' The Patron Saint of Liars is a remarkable novel.

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