Monday, September 15, 2008
7 p.m.
Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater
Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor
South Campus

Ann Beattie is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, 1976’s Chilly Scenes of Winter was made into a film, followed by Falling in Place; Love Always; Picturing Will; Another You; My Life, Starring Dara Falcon; and The Doctor’s House.

Among Ms. Beattie’s short story collections are Distortions; Secrets and Surprises;, The Burning House;, Where You’ll Find Me; What Was Mine; Park City: New and Selected Stories; Perfect Recall; and Follies: New Stories.

Ms. Beattie received the Award in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters and was later inducted as a member of that organization. She is also a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story and the Rea Award for the Short Story. Her stories have been included in four volumes of O. Henry Award collections.

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. She has served as a visiting writer at Northwestern University and held brief residences at Rice University, University of Houston, University of Idaho and summer workshops at the Santa Monica Writers Conference, Writers at Work, Ropewalk and the New York State Writers Institute.

Ms. Beattie resides in Maine, Key West and Charlottesville with her husband, painter Lincoln Perry. Her writing has been translated into many languages, with book publications in France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Japan, Spain and Sweden.