TWA Birthday: Ann Patchett

Born: 1963

It’s the birthday of novelist Ann Patchett, born in Los Angeles (1963). She grew up Catholic and went to an all-girls Catholic school in Nashville, where she still lives. She said, “Catholicism really trained me for fiction writing. I think it has to be the greatest religion for a fiction writer because it is so much a tradition of story and parable. I …