10 REASONS WHY ANN PATCHETT IS EXTRAORDINARY: 1. Her book Bel Canto became a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and received the PEN/Faulkner Award aside from being BookSense Book of the Year. 2. Her first novel The Patron Saint of Liars was named a New York Times Notable Book. 3. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Bunting Fellowship from the Mary Ingrahm Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College, and a residential fellowship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. 4. She received the Nashville Banner Tennessee Writer of the Year Award in 1994. 5. Her second novel “Taft” won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize in fiction despite bombing big time. 6. She once served as editor of The Best American Short Stories. 7. Her commencement speech was published as an essay titled “What Now?” 8. “Run,” her fourth non-fiction work, became a New York Time’s bestseller. 9. She owns Parnassus bookstore in Nashville. It was established in 2010 and managed to thrive in spite of e-books. 10. She was included in the Time 100 list of most influential people in the world in 2012. For more about the eXtraordinary Ann Patchett….. BeXtraordinary too and visit thextraordinary.org/configuration/ann-patchett
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