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	New York State Writers Institute - Ann Beattie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Ann Beattie, short story writer and novelist and one of the nation's most important fiction writers, has received critical acclaim for her depiction of the generation of Americans who grew up in the 60s.
		Ann Beattie grew up in Washington, D.C. She has taught at Harvard College and the University of Virginia, among other places.
		Ann Beattie visited the NYS Writers Institute on November 11, 1999.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/beattieann.html (298 words)

	Simon & Schuster: Ann Beattie
		Ann Beattie's Follies is a superb novella and collection of stories about adult children, aging parents, and the chance encounters that irrevocably alter lives.
		Ann Beattie published her first short story in The New Yorker in 1972.
		Ann Beattie is one of the foremost story writers of her generation.
	www.simonsays.com /content/destination.cfm?sid=33&pid=360315 (292 words)

	Ann Beattie Summary
		Ann Beattie's powerful contrast in her writing of tellingly detailed descriptions and stark silence has caused her work to be placed in the contemporary canon of literary minimalism, a movement identified by critics--not by the so-called minimalists them...
		Ann Beattie is a novelist and short-story writer whose evocations of American life at the end of the twentieth century have earned her a wide readership and sustained critical engagement for more than two decades.
		Ann Beattie (born September 8, 1947) is an American short story writer and novelist.
	www.bookrags.com /Ann_Beattie (386 words)

	Article-Distortions
		Beattie captures perfectly the profound longings that came to define an entire generation with insight, compassion, and humor.
		The now-classic, utterly unique voice of Ann Beattie is so dry it throws off sparks, her eye endowed with the emotional equivalent of X-ray vision.
		Ann Beattie arrived on the literary scene in the early 1970s, publishing the first of her carefully understated short stories in the New Yorker and becoming something of a legend for the speed with which she worked--22 stories in a year, and a complete draft of her first novel...
	www.minihttpserver.net /z_book/A_distortions-0679732357.htm (532 words)

	Article-Burning House
		Ann Beattie's The Burning House is one of the definitive collections of short fiction available today.
		Beattie's sparse, witty prose defines the minimalist trend of the seventies and eighties, and her characterizations are dead on.
		Beattie manages to capture the moments when intimate relationships are at a threshhold, either falling apart or suggesting some new promise.
	www.minihttpserver.net /z_book/A_burning_house-067976500X.htm (961 words)

	Ploughshares, the literary journal
		Myth has it that Ann Beattie published her first short story in The New Yorker when she was twenty-five years old,signed a first-read contract with them, and thereafter made five to seven annual appearances in the venerable magazine—with stories she would write in one sitting, in one afternoon.
		In the early seventies, Beattie was a Ph.D. candidate in literature at the University of Connecticut, and a professor, J. O’Hara, who was a mentor of sorts, began sticking stamps on envelopes and submitting Beattie’s stories for her.
		Beattie resides for the moment in Maine with her husband, the painter Lincoln Perry.
	www.pshares.org /issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=3901 (1579 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Ann Beattie - Books: Meet the Writers
		To many readers, Ann Beattie was the diarist for a whole cross-section of American society.
		Beattie had to start again from scratch on Another You after deciding that the first 350 pages she had written of it were not compelling enough.
		Beattie's best-selling portrait of a broken family, her fourth novel, earned this praise from Boyle: "Her style has never been better suited to a longer work, and she writes out of a wisdom and maturity that are timeless."
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?z=y&vcqty=1&cid=575090 (240 words)

	Ann Beattie - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		In these works Beattie often employs a much less minimalist style and achieves a new emotional depth as she explores themes that include the sadnesses of middle age and the alienation of characters whose relationships and very lives seem inevitably to falter.
		Ann Beattie, Reluctant Voice of a Generation; The Boomers' Scribe, Back in the Spotlight With `Picturing Will'
		Ann Beattie's new characters: older, not so gifted, still bleak.(Originated from Orange County Register)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-BeattieA.html (552 words)

	Vintage Catalog \| Park City by Ann Beattie
		For more than twenty-five years, Ann Beattie's short fiction has held a mirror up to America, portraying its awkwardly welded families, its loosely coupled couples, and much-uprooted children with acuity, humor, and compassion.
		Beattie's characters embark on stoned cross-country odysseys with lovers who may leave them before the engine cools.
		Born in 1947, Ann Beattie grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., attended college at American University, and went on to do graduate work in English literature at the University of Connecticut.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0679781331 (343 words)

	Ann Beattie
		Beattie has been compared in many ways to John Updike and John Cheever because of her suburban settings and her representations of the interior workings of upper-middle-class American life.
		For example, in her short story “The Burning House,” we have a group of family and friends whose amiable relationships are built on an intricate web of secrecy, of things they cannot come right out and say.
		We do not have a sense that Beattie is trying to forge order out of this chaos; she simply accepts things the way they are and chronicles them as such.
	www.storybites.com /beattie.htm (438 words)

	Books: Beattie Generation
		Typically, an early Ann Beattie has three or four people in their early 30s gathered at someone's house for a weekend.
		Ann Beattie in her minimalist stage is even easier to parody.
		Beattie seems to have made a huge leap in consciousness between this and her last collection, and I suspect this is why she's coming out with a compilation of selected stories while she's still in mid-career.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/1998/082798/book.html (722 words)

	'Follies: New Stories' by Ann Beattie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		In Ann Beattie's newest collection of short stories, the witty use of the detritus of life that once earmarked her fiction as contemporary -- the crucial product placement or cultural reference -- now seems banal.
		The characters in her new collection are the aging baby boomers of Beattie's earlier stories, and even they are bored by the clutter of their lives.
		Beattie used to employ the present tense as if her characters were continually stuck in the gestalt of the moment.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05170/523405.stm (688 words)

	Books: Ann Beattie Opens Up (The Boston Phoenix . 08-24-98)
		Over the course of a quarter-century -- six novels, six collections of short stories -- Ann Beattie has proved herself to be one of the most important and influential writers in America.
		Her scrubbed prose, impossibly resonant commonplaces, and pervasive sense of muted despair have found legions of admirers -- and inspired battalions of imitators.
		Beattie has made a career out of studying disaffection, peering into the grisly breaches in our emotional lives, but she has done so with the humor and energy that only one who delights in lifting stones and logs can muster.
	weeklywire.com /ww/08-24-98/boston_books_2.html (1679 words)

	Folio - Interviews - Ann Beattie
		Ann Beattie has published seven novels and seven collections of short stories.
		Coinciding with the publication of her latest book of short stories, Ann Beattie visited American University in October 2005 to honor her mentor and professor, Frank Turaj, retiring professor of literature and to whom Follies: New Stories is dedicated.
		Beattie charmed people with her humorous, blunt, and spirited conversation.
	www.american.edu /cas/lit/folio/winter2006inter.html (2962 words)

	Books: Ann Beattie Opens Up (The Boston Phoenix . 08-24-98)
		Over the course of a quarter-century -- six novels, six collections of short stories -- Ann Beattie has proved herself to be one of the most important and influential writers in America.
		Her scrubbed prose, impossibly resonant commonplaces, and pervasive sense of muted despair have found legions of admirers -- and inspired battalions of imitators.
		Beattie has made a career out of studying disaffection, peering into the grisly breaches in our emotional lives, but she has done so with the humor and energy that only one who delights in lifting stones and logs can muster.
	www.weeklywire.com /ww/08-24-98/boston_books_2.html (1679 words)

	hss_guth_disclit_3\|Student Site\|Symbol\|Ann Beattie
		Ann Beattie was born in Washington, D.C., but grew up in the nearby suburb of Chevy Chase, Maryland, where she was, by her own admission, something of a rebel.
		Beattie has taught English and creative writing at both Harvard University and the University of Virginia.
		Beattie's fiction has been praised for its stylistic excellence, particularly her use of detail and dialogue.
	wps.prenhall.com /hss_guth_disclit_3/0,5308,341279-,00.html (299 words)

	Ann Beattie Interview with Don Swaim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		In this 1985 interview with Don Swaim, Ann Beattie considers herself lucky to be a writer as she began her career with little ambition to write.
		Beattie explains that it is important to feel your way into writing, which determines the direction of a novel without imposing a preexisting form on to it.
		Also, Ann Beattie speaks of the different things she encounters as she leads writer's workshops.
	wiredforbooks.org /annbeattie (195 words)

	ENGL 4188—Individual Authors: Beattie
		Thus, to study Ann Beattie is, in many ways, to study the development of fiction in English through the lens of someone who has the knowledge of Susan Sontag, the irony of Jon Stewart, and the hipness of someone too cool for a middle-aged college professor to name.
		Beattie will visit our class, giving you a rare chance to meet the author that you are studying.
		Students will be able to place Beattie’s work in the historical and cultural contexts of American literature and its myths relating to upward mobility, pursuit of happiness, and the nuclear family.
	www.westga.edu /~jhill/4188fa06.htm (2474 words)

	Ann Beattie Interview with Don Swaim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		In this 1985 interview with Don Swaim, Ann Beattie considers herself lucky to be a writer as she began her career with little ambition to write.
		Beattie explains that it is important to feel your way into writing, which determines the direction of a novel without imposing a preexisting form on to it.
		Also, Ann Beattie speaks of the different things she encounters as she leads writer's workshops.
	www.wiredforbooks.org /annbeattie (195 words)

	Fiction: Ann Beattie
		Brief profile of Beattie, including her thoughts on judging stories for Ploughshares magazine, and on reading and writing, in general.
		Informal, lengthy interview with Beattie in the Boston Phoenix.
		Beattie began to send her stories to magazines, and her first publication, "A Rose for Judy Garland's Casket," appeared in the Western Humanities Review in 1972.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/fiction/beattie.htm (173 words)

	DNK Amazon Store :: Follies: New Stories
		Beattie, winner of four O. Henry prizes, has been called "one of our era's most vital masters of the short form" (The Washington Post Book World).
		Ann Beattie is at the top of her form in this superb collection, writing with the vividness, compassion, and sometimes morbid wit that have made her one of the most influential writers of her generation.
		I used to like Ann Beattie a whole lot back in the 70s and 80s when she seemed to have an ear for the anomie afflicting a generation.
	www.entertainmentcareers.net /book/ProductDetails.aspx?asin=0743269616 (432 words)

	Imagined Scenes Summary & Essays - Ann Beattie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		“Imagined Scenes” by Ann Beattie first appeared in the Texas Quarterly in the summer of 1974 and was later published in Beattie’s 1976 collection, Distortions.
		While she is out of the house, her husband appears to be entertaining guests or going out himself without revealing his whereabouts to his wife.
		Beattie’s flat prose and attention to minutia create a world comprised of detail and of gaps, leaving the reader to puzzle out which of the scenes are the imagined ones.
	www.enotes.com /imagined-scenes (238 words)

	Amazon.com: Falling in Place: A Novel: Books: Ann Beattie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		And to top it all off Beattie manages to deal with the then trendy "battle of the sexes" without taking sides --and remember this she did nearly three decades ago.
		One has to be in the right frame of mind to read Beattie, who when she wrote 'Falling in Place,' was just coming out of what the critics had called the 'minimalist' movement.
		What an excellent book this is, and what an original Beattie was, before she caved in to criticisms of her minimalism and started "fleshing out" her fiction (see Another You).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0394503236?v=glance (1550 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Author Spotlight: Ann Beattie
		To her latest novel, Beattie brings the same documentary accuracy and Chekhovian wit and tenderness that have made her one of the most acclaimed portraitists of contemporary American life.
		Marshall Lockard, a professor at the local college, is contemplating adultery, unaware that his wife is already committing it.
		Picturing Will, the widely acclaimed new novel by Ann Beattie, unravels the complexities of a postmodern family.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=1736 (349 words)

	I Read A Short Story Today: Ann Beattie, "Find and Replace"
		Ann's not too happy Mom found a new man to live with.
		There's a little bit of meta haunting this thing; the title refers to the narrator's using real life in her fiction by changing the names.
		f course, this character's name is Ann, so it's not a courtesy she extends to herself, or to us, I guess.
	www.ireadashortstorytoday.com /2006/07/ann-beattie-find-and-replace.html (194 words)

	Amazon.com: The Pleasures of Perplexity: Books: Ann Beattie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Ann Beattie has published seven novels and seven collections of stories.
		Ann Beattie arrived on the literary scene in the early 1970s, publishing the first of her carefully understated short stories in...
		Contrary to expectations raised by the title of Ann Beattie's new novel, the protagonist of My Life Starring Dara Falcon is...
	www.amazon.com /gp/product/B000A0F6JK (820 words)

	Ann Beattie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ann Beattie (born September 8, 1947) is an American short story writer and novelist.
		She received an award for excellence from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and her work has been compared to that of Alice Adams, JD Salinger, John Cheever, and John Updike.
		1985 and 1991 audio interviews of Ann Beattie by Don Swaim
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ann_Beattie (210 words)

	All Consuming
		Ann Beattie's "Janus": A Study Guide from Gale's "Short Stories for Students" (Volume 09, Chapter 7)
		Ann Beattie Reads: Desire, Learning to Fall, Snow, Skeletons
		Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
	www.allconsuming.net /search/query?q=Ann+Beattie&product=book (77 words)

	Department Events
		Lincoln Perry will be accompanied by his wife, author Ann Beattie.
		Beattie, who is Edgar Allen Poe Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia, is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has published seven novels and short story collections.
		In a public lecture on Thursday, November 9th, Perry and Beattie will address aspects of their work as individuals and as artists living and working together, discussing in detail their recent book collaboration entitled Lincoln Perry’s Charlottesville, for which Beattie wrote an introductory essay and conducted a detailed interview with her husband.
	www.westga.edu /%7Eengdept/gtku/DeptEvents.htm (655 words)

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