Anne Lamott
Autor(a) de Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
About the Author
Anne Lamott was born on April 10, 1954 in San Francisco, California. She began writing when she returned to California after spending two years at Goucher College, but her early efforts, mostly short stories, met with little success. The turning point in her writing came with a family crisis, when mostrar mais her father was diagnosed with brain cancer. She wrote a series of short pieces about the traumatic effect that serious illness has on a family. These pieces were published, and they eventually became the basis of her first novel, Hard Laughter, published in 1980. During the 1980s, she wrote three additional novels, Rosie, Joe Jones and All New People. In 1989, her life took another turn when her son was born. Her next book, published in 1993, was a non-fiction effort called Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year. She wrote ironically, but candidly, about her struggles to adjust to her new role as a mother and a single parent, and her experiences with everything from sleep deprivation to financial and emotional uncertainty to concerns about what she would tell her son when he was old enough to ask about his absent father. Operating Instructions proved to be even more successful than her novels, and led to interviews on network news programs and a regular spot on National Public Radio. Her other works include Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life; Crooked Little Heart; Blue Shoe, Imperfect Birds, and Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son. Her title Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. Her title Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair and Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace also made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras de Anne Lamott
Because I said so! Author Anne Lamott doesn't think twice about making her teenage son go to church, even though he… (2005) 2 cópias
March madness: for author Anne Lamott, spring's the season of wildflowers, doomed love, deer ticks, and utter joy. (2012) 1 exemplar(es)
12 truths I learned from life and writing 1 exemplar(es)
Lamott, Anne Archive 1 exemplar(es)
Time lost and found: turn off Twitter, Anne Lamott says. And don't clean the house. That's what it takes to create the… (2010) 1 exemplar(es)
Thanks: The Second Essential Prayer (Help, Thanks, Wow) 1 exemplar(es)
Parkade, The 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them (2006) — Contribuinte — 389 cópias
Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (2000) — Contribuinte — 234 cópias
Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (1996) — Contribuinte — 201 cópias
Maybe Baby: 28 Writers Tell the Truth About Skepticism, Infertility, Baby Lust, Childlessness, Ambivalence, and How… (2006) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 127 cópias
The Life of Meaning: Reflections on Faith, Doubt, and Repairing the World (2007) — Contribuinte — 125 cópias
The Love Wins Companion: A Study Guide for Those Who Want to Go Deeper (2011) — Contribuinte — 77 cópias
Between the Listening and the Telling: How Stories Can Save Us (2022) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 32 cópias
Bird by bird with Annie: a portrait of writer Anne Lamott [video recording] (2009) — cast — 9 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1954-04-10
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Locais de residência
- San Francisco, California, USA
Fairfax, California, USA - Educação
- Drew College Preparatory School
- Ocupação
- author
novelist
writer - Relacionamentos
- Lamott, Sam (son)
- Premiações
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1985)
- Agente
- Steven Barclay Agency (12 Western Avenue • Petaluma, California • 94952)
- Pequena biografia
- Born in San Francisco, Anne Lamott is the author of five novels and three works of nonfiction, and the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. She has been a book reviewer for Mademoiselle, a restaurant critic for California magazine, and a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. She also writes a popular column for the on-line magazine Salon, which Time magazine noted "could alone be the Best of the Web." Anne Lamott lives in northern California with her son, Sam.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 32
- Also by
- 15
- Membros
- 29,198
- Popularidade
- #686
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 696
- ISBNs
- 246
- Idiomas
- 6
- Favorito
- 131
In this profound and funny book, Lamott calls for each of us to rediscover the nuggets of hope and wisdom that are buried within us that can make life sweeter than we ever imagined. Divided into short chapters that explore life's essential truths, Almost Everything pinpoints these moments of insight as it shines an encouraging light forward.… (mais)