Author

Books by Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett is an American novelist and co-owner of the independent bookstore Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee. She is the author of eight novels including Bel Canto, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction; Commonwealth; and Run. Her nonfiction collection This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage explores her life as a writer and reader. She is one of the most consistently reviewed literary novelists working in America and an outspoken advocate for independent bookselling. The Dutch House was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2020.