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Patty Dann (born October 30, 1953) is an American novelist and nonfiction writer. She studied at the University of Oregon, and later earned an MFA in writing from Columbia University.
Patty Dann has published seven books, four fiction and three non-fiction. Her work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Korean and Japanese. She has written three Modern Love columns for The New York Times.
Patty Dann. Both memoir & fiction are a brew of memory & imagination.
Patty Dann is the author of Mermaids (3.67 avg rating, 940 ratings, 115 reviews, published 1986), The Wright Sister (3.10 avg rating, 893 ratings, 210 re...
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Patty Dann is the author of the novel, Starfish (Greenpoint Press, 2013), a sequel to her novel, Mermaids, a coming of age novel about a teenage girl which was published in 1986. In 1990, Mermaids was made into a movie of the same name, starring Cher, Winona Ryder, Bob Hoskins, and Christina Ricci.
Books — Patty Dann. FICTION. " Dann does an amazing job of transporting readers in time by imagining Katharine's joy, her devotion to Orville, and the pain she feels from their one-sided correspondence. - Booklist. Amazon.com. "Dann gives us a magnificent voice in the young Charlotte. This first novel both hilarious and tragic, is a radiant debut."
Aug 19, 2020 · Author Patty Dann gives the less famous, The Wright Sister (2020), a voice through her letters to Orville and her Marriage Diary, following her late-in-life marriage to widower Harry Haskell.* Dann’s novel includes everything from the Wright children’s home life as children and adults who never left home, Katharine’s role in the invention ...
