Author

Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett is the American novelist behind Bel Canto (2001, Orange Prize and PEN/Faulkner), Commonwealth (2016), The Dutch House (2019, Pulitzer finalist), Tom Lake (2023), and the bookstore-and-essay memoir These Precious Days (2021). Patchett co-owns Parnassus Books in Nashville and is one of the canonical contemporary American literary novelists.