Ann Beattie

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Ann Beattie (born September 8, 1947) is an American short story writer and novelist. She has received an award for excellence from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and a PEN/Bernard Malamud Award for excellence in the short story form. Her work has been compared to Alice Adams, J.D. Salinger, John Cheever, and John Updike. She holds an undergraduate degree from American University and a masters degree from the University of Connecticut.

Born in Washington, D.C., Beattie grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland. She gained attention in the early 1970s with short stories published in The Western Humanities Review, the Atlantic Monthly, and The New Yorker. Critics have praised her writing for its keen observations and dry, matter-of-fact irony which chronicle disillusionments of the upper-middle-class generation that grew up in the 1960s. In 1976, she published her first book of short stories, Distortions, and her first novel, Chilly Scenes of Winter, later made into a film. She has taught at Harvard College and the University of Connecticut and presently teaches at the University of Virginia, where she is the Edgar Allan Poe Chair of the Department of English and Creative Writing.

Contents

1 Bibliography

1.1 Short Story Collections
1.2 Novels

2 External links

Bibliography

Short Story Collections

Distortions (1976)
Secrets and Surprises (1978)
The Burning House (1982)
Janus (1986)
What Was Mine (1991)
Where You’ll Find Me and Other Stories (1993)
Park City (1998)
Perfect Recall (2000)
Follies: New Stories (2005)
Snow

Novels

Chilly Scenes of Winter (1976)
Falling in Place (1981)
Love Always (1986)
Picturing Will (1990)
Another You (1995)
My Life, Starring Dara Falcon (1997)
The Doctor's House (2002)

External links

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