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Ann Beattie has been included in four O. Henry Award Collections and in John Updike’s The Best American Short Stories of the Century. In 2000, she received the PEN/Malamud Award for achievement in the short story form. In 2005, she received the Rea Award for the Short Story. She and her husband, Lincoln Perry, live in Key West, Florida, and Charlottesville, Virginia, where she is Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia.

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Mrs. Nixon will be released on November 15, 2011 in Hardcover, eBook
Nov 15, 2011
Mrs. Nixon is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Nov 15, 2011
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Chapter 2 from Mrs. Nixon
Nov 05, 2011
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Oct 13, 2011
The New Yorker Stories will be released on October 11, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Oct 11, 2011
The New Yorker Stories is now available in Trade Paperback
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Sep 29, 2011
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Excerpt 1 from Mrs. Nixon
Sep 03, 2011
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Jul 29, 2011
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Chapter 37 from The New Yorker Stories
Nov 19, 2010
The New Yorker Stories is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Nov 16, 2010
The New Yorker Stories will be released on November 16, 2010 in Hardcover, eBook
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Walks With Men will be released on June 08, 2010 in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook
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Tampa Tribune, January 22, 2012
...» 0 Comments | Post a Comment "Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life" (Scribner), by Ann Beattie One of the most poignant parts of Ann Beattie's new work, "Mrs. Nixon," is a page at the beginning listing the nicknames of Thelma Catherine Ryan, who...
Atlanta Journal And Constitution, January 14, 2012
...for “The Stranger You Seek,” Bantam Books The prize will be awarded at an April 26 ceremony at Atlanta Botanical Garden. Ann Beattie, author of “Mrs. Nixon and Walks With Men,” who is the Edgar Allan Poe professor of literature and creative...
Creative Loafing, January 13, 2012
...held on Thurs., April 26, at the Day Room of the Atlanta Botanical Gardens, with none other than Ann Beattie on hand to give the keynote address. Daniel Black for Perfect Peace, St Martin?s Press Lynn Cullen for Reign Of Madness, G.P. Putnam?s Sons Ann...
Onion AV Club, January 4, 2012
...In Ann Beattie’s 1974 short story “Wolf Dreams,” a woman staring down an impending marriage to a man she views with ambivalence channels her frustrations into a poison-pen letter to Richard...
Charleston Post and Courier, December 25, 2011
...MRS. NIXON: A Novelist Imagines a Life. By Ann Beattie. Scribner. 285 pages. $26. Ann Beattie is one of our most celebrated contemporary authors, once lauded as "a national treasure" in The New York Times Book Review. Widely praised...
San Jose Mercury News, December 24, 2011
...even tragic, as her life fell in her husband's shadow.All of this can be gleaned from Ann Beattie's book "Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life," but it is hardly at the center. Beattie begins by listing the 11 nicknames Pat (born Thelma) went by...
Salon, December 22, 2011
...week of November we hosted Robert Massie for ?Catherine the Great,? Chris Matthews for ?Jack Kennedy,? Ann Beattie for ?Mrs. Nixon,? Walter Isaacson for ?Steve Jobs? and Bill Clinton for ?Back to Work.? That was a bit more luminous than some weeks, but...
The Rumpus.net, November 20, 2011
...faces (the eyes having deteriorated in the wash) that clash with all of the above.” —The seventh of Ann Beattie’s seven truths about writers from her new book, Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life , excerpted in The New Yorker .   Related Posts:...
Vol. 1 Brooklyn, November 17, 2011
...bookstore in Nashville. In related news: fuck yeah, Ann Patchett. New poetry from Kevin Sampsell. Vulture chats with Ann Beattie about Mrs. Nixon. Ken Baumann puts in his two cents about Dennis Cooper's The Marbled Swarm. Drag City is bringing the Groovy...
Vulture, November 15, 2011
...Ann Beattie might be the author least likely to write a self-referential semi-fictional book about forgettable First Lady Pat Nixon. Just last year, The New Yorker Stories, a collection of tales...
Entertainment, November 14, 2011
...sizeMrs. Nixon, Scribner, 282 pp., $26, on sale Nov. 15 By Susan Ager The Mrs. Nixon imagined by Ann Beattie would most likely delight in this book -- but probably secretly. Younger readers won't recognize her as the wife of President Richard Nixon,...
Linus's Blanket, November 3, 2011
...Watson – Book Review The Beginners: A Novel, by Rebecca Wolff – Book Review Walks With Men, by Ann Beattie – Book Review...
nomadreader, October 22, 2011
...Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry by Christine Sneed (short stories) Walks with Men by Ann Beattie (novella) Train Dreams by Denis Johnson (novella) The Master Key by Masako Togawa (novella) The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (novella) A...
bookshelves of doom, October 18, 2011
...showed support of the Occupy Wall Street movement at Occupy Writers are:Dorothy Allison, Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks, Ann Beattie, Alison Bechdel, Charles Benoit, Tim Byrd, Cecil Castellucci, Noam Chomsky, Billy Collins, Christopher Paul Curtis,...