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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ann Patchett
(born December 2, 1963 ) is an American author. She received the Orange
Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2002 for her novel Bel
Canto. Patchett's other novels include Run, The Patron Saint of Liars,
Taft, and The Magician's Assistant, which was shortlisted for the Orange
Prize. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and received the
Nashville Banner Tennessee Writer of the Year Award in 1994. Patchett
was born in Los Angeles, California. She moved to Nashville, Tennessee
when she was six, where she continues to live. Her mother is the
novelist Jeanne Ray.
