![]() ![]() The first part plunges the reader into a laboratory world of pharmaceutical research and drug development, while the heart of State of Wonder takes us into the Brazilian jungles where a team of scientists is hard at work. ![]() In 2012, Patchett was on the Time 100 list of most influential people in the world by TIME magazine. Ann Patchett’s novel, State of Wonder, posits just such a situation. In 2010, when she found that her hometown of Nashville no longer had a good book store, she co-founded Parnassus Books with Karen Hayes the store opened in November 2011. It was also there that she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars. She later attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she met longtime friend Elizabeth McCracken. Following graduation, she attended Sarah Lawrence College and took fiction writing classes with Allan Gurganus, Russell Banks, and Grace Paley. Bernard Academy, a private, non-parochial Catholic school for girls run by the Sisters of Mercy. the stable window that opens out into the imagination." If asked if she could go any place, that place would always be home. Patchett said she loves her home in Nashville with her doctor husband and dog. Irish writer Rooney has made a trans-Atlantic splash since publishing her first novel, Conversations With Friends, in 2017. She moved to Nashville, Tennessee when she was six, where she continues to live. Patchett was born in Los Angeles, California. ![]()
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