Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie
Ann Beattieis an American novelist and short story writer. She has received an award for excellence from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the short story form. Her work has been compared to that of Alice Adams, J.D. Salinger, John Cheever, and John Updike. She holds an undergraduate degree from American University and a master's degree from the University of Connecticut...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 September 1947
CountryUnited States of America
If the waitress shows up and doesn't have an exit line, that isn't true to life - I'm hard pressed to think of a waitress who just walks away.
Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven't listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don't.
I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target.
I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way of clarification is ever going to eradicate the mistakes.
whose work has made a significant contribution to the discipline of the short story as an art form.
I think a lot of the difference between my newer work and the older work is that I would have tried to imply some of those things before.
Well, I've found myself a lot of times with student manuscripts, saying to them that it worries me that their work seems hermetically sealed.
have been forced to close and have no idea when they may reopen.
Her prose has become known for its vivid particularity, the details of the way we live.
That's what I mean; if your writing doesn't transcend the era, then it would really seem to be only of very limited sociological importance.