Ann Patchett Audio & Video

Ann Patchett's award winning, New York Times best-selling Bel Canto balances themes of love and crisis as disparate characters learn that music is their only common language.

The author of Bel Canto turns to nonfiction in a moving chronicle of her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy....

St. Elizabeth's is a home for unwed mothers in the 1960s. Life there is not unpleasant, and for most, it is temporary.

The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays.

Blending literature and memoir, Ann Patchett examines her deepest commitments: to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband in This is the Story of a Happy Marriage.

John Nickel is a black ex-jazz musician who only wants to be a good father. But when his son is taken away from him...

Based on her lauded commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College, this stirring essay by best-selling author Ann Patchett offers hope and inspiration for anyone at a crossroads, whether graduating, changing careers, or transitioning from one life stage to another. With wit and candor, Patchett tells her own story of attending college, graduating, and struggling with the inevitable question, "What now?"

A memoir in the form of an essay collection, this volume spans Patchett's life from her young, hungry days working for Seventeen and other magazines to her new role as proprietor of an independent bookstore.