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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 13, 2012 in Trade Paperback
Nov 13, 2012
Mrs. Nixon is now available in Trade Paperback
Nov 13, 2012
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
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The New Yorker Stories will be released on November 16, 2010 in Hardcover, eBook
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DePauw University, April 3, 2013
...PEN/Malamud Award winners include John Updike, Saul Bellow, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Munro, John Barth, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ann Beattie, Tobias Wolff and Adam Haslett, Nam Le and Edward P. Jones, and James Salter. Read more of today's announcement...
Sun Journal, March 6, 2013
...Author Ann Beattie will be at New Bern ArtWorks Fine Art Gallery on Pollock Street Saturday for a book-signing. Contributed photo Published: Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 14:50 PM. New Bern...
Dazed Digital, March 5, 2013
...Carver, Robert Coover, Chekhov, Kafka, Katherine Mansfield, Roberto Bolano, Borges, Barry Hannah, Gordon Lish, Christine Schutt, Joy Williams, Ann Beattie, Lydia Davis, George Saunders, Leonard Michaels, Donald Barthelme were all major revelations for...
Addict3d.org, March 1, 2013
...authors include Seamus Heaney, Jamaica Kincaid, Derek Walcott, Adam Zagajewski, Binyavanga Wainaina, Paul Muldoon, Thomas Bernhard, Tim Parks, Ann Beattie, David Markson, Zbigniew Herbert, Jeet Thayil, Gary Snyder, Mark Strand, Don Paterson, Denis...
Sacramento Bee, February 17, 2013
...dreck, either. I was willing to part with two hardbacks, "Sunset Park" by Paul Auster and "Follies" by Ann Beattie, and the paperback novel "The Hundred Brothers" by Donald Antrim. The snob in me felt, "I'll never find something of similar literary...
Guardian.co.uk, January 9, 2013
...possibly others." While I'm relaying trivia, it's also interesting to note that Joan Didion and Ann Beattie had both previously been on the Mademoiselle scheme. The novelist Diane Johnson was there at the same time as Plath. And it published writing by...
Newsday, December 27, 2012
...I loved Craig Nova's "Another Drunk Gambler," a sly story about a racetrack scam (chosen by Ann Beattie) and the sibling psychological warfare of "Lying Presences" by Norman Rush (a Mona Simpson pick). Worth the admission price alone is Jeffrey...
Psychology Today, January 15, 2013
...of interviews with other mothers, fathers, and “former children,” including the authors Richard Russo, Augusten Burroughs, Edward Albee, Ann Beattie, Timothy Kreider, and Susan Minot, whose insights I’ll share concerning the children they were, and...
Guardian.co.uk, January 9, 2013
...possibly others." While I'm relaying trivia, it's also interesting to note that Joan Didion and Ann Beattie had both previously been on the Mademoiselle scheme. The novelist Diane Johnson was there at the same time as Plath. And it published writing by...
Chronicle of Higher Education, January 7, 2013
...Ann Beattie, the author of Chilly Scenes of Winter, Falling in Place, Mrs. Nixon, and numerous other novels and short-story collections, has resigned from her position as a tenured professor of...
Newsday, December 27, 2012
...I loved Craig Nova's "Another Drunk Gambler," a sly story about a racetrack scam (chosen by Ann Beattie) and the sibling psychological warfare of "Lying Presences" by Norman Rush (a Mona Simpson pick). Worth the admission price alone is Jeffrey...
Bloomberg, December 20, 2012
...at first, then uncomprehendingly. Herzog, whose “4000 Miles” was one of last year’s best plays, is the Ann Beattie of her generation: A writer so finely attuned to the conversational beats and syncopations of an era, that communication flows with...
Huffington Post, December 20, 2012
...minds might turn to literature with scenes of Christmas, cold and snow. To cite the title of an Ann Beattie book, we're talking Chilly Scenes of Winter here! One author who immediately comes to mind is Jack London, given that several of his novels are...
Bloomberg, December 19, 2012
...at first, then uncomprehendingly. Herzog, whose “4000 Miles” was one of last year’s best plays, is the Ann Beattie of her generation: A writer so finely attuned to the conversational beats and syncopations of an era, that communication flows with...