Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott (born April 10, 1954) is an American novelist and nonfiction writer.
She is also a progressive political activist, public speaker, and writing teacher. Lamott is based in Marin County, California. Her nonfiction works are largely autobiographical.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Lamott's writings, marked by their self-deprecating humor and openness, cover such subjects as alcoholism, single-motherhood, depression, and Christianity.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Early life and educationEdit
Lamott was born in San Francisco, and is a graduate of Drew School. She was a student at Goucher College for two years where she wrote for the newspaper.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her father, Kenneth Lamott, was also a writer. Her first published novel Hard Laughter was written for him after his diagnosis of brain cancer. She has one son, Sam, who was born in August 1989 and a grandson, Jax, born in July 2009.<ref name="CNN">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
CareerEdit
Lamott's life was documented in Freida Lee Mock's 1999 documentary Bird by Bird with Annie: A Film Portrait of Writer Anne Lamott.<ref>Template:Cite video</ref> Because of the documentary and her following on Facebook and other online networks, she is often called the "People's Author".<ref name="PBSSmiley">Template:Cite news</ref>
Lamott has described why she writes:
I try to write the books I would love to come upon, that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness—and that can make me laugh. When I am reading a book like this, I feel rich and profoundly relieved to be in the presence of someone who will share the truth with me, and throw the lights on a little, and I try to write these kinds of books. Books, for me, are medicine.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Lamott was featured on the second episode of the first season of the show The Midnight Gospel.
Awards and honorsEdit
Lamott was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She was inducted into the California Hall of Fame in 2010.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Personal lifeEdit
On April 13, 2019, Lamott married Neal Allen, 63, a former vice president for marketing at the McKesson Corporation in San Francisco. The couple met in August 2016. He is a twice-divorced father of four, who left his job at McKesson to devote himself to writing.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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NovelsEdit
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NonfictionEdit
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ReferencesEdit
Further readingEdit
- Bochynski, Pegge. (2010) "Anne Lamott" in American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies, Supplement XX, Mary Antin to Phillis Wheatley. Ed. Jay Parini. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons p131-146.
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- Vandenburgh, Jane. (2010) Architecture of the Novel: A Writer's Handbook. Anne Lamott (Foreword). Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Template:ISBN
External linksEdit
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- Salon.com: articles by Anne Lamott
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- Write TV Public Television Interview (2004)
- Minnesota Public Radio Interview (2007)
- Interview for Writers on the Record (2007)
- Goodreads.com: Author profile: Anne Lamott
- TED.com: "12 truths I learned from life and writing", a talk by Anne Lamott (2017)