Lessons from Peanuts: An Evening with Ann Patchett & Kate DiCamillo

Peanuts fan Ann Patchett is the author of nine novels, including Bel Canto, State of Wonder and Tom Lake. She was the editor of Best American Short Stories, 2006, and has written four nonfiction books. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Patchett has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a National Humanities Medal, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Book Sense Book of the Year, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Bookseller’s Association’s Most Engaging Author Award, and the Women’s National Book Association’s Award. Her novel, The Dutch House, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her books have been both New York Times Notable Books and New York Times bestsellers and haves been translated into more than thirty languages. In November, 2011, she opened Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee.  She has since become a spokesperson for independent booksellers, championing books and bookstores on NPR, The Colbert Report (including the series finale), Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday, The Martha Stewart Show, and The CBS Early Show, among many others. In 2012 she was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. Patchett lives in Nashville with her husband and once had a wonderful dog named Sparky.