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Ann Beattie, "Janus"

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[From The Norton Introduction to Literature]

(b. 1947)

Ann Beattie grew up in the Washington suburb of Chevy Chase, Maryland. She received a B.A. from American University and went on to graduate study in English at the University of Connecticut.After publishing “A Rose for Judy Garland” in 1972, she began placing stories in such magazines as The New Yorker, becoming a kind of spokesperson for the generation that came of age in the 1960s.Many of her stories have been collected in Distortions (1976), Secrets and Surprises (1979), Jacklighting (1981), The Burning House (1982), Where You'll Find Me (1986), What Was Mine: Stories (1990), and Park City: New and Selected Stories (1999). Her novels are Chilly Scenes of Winter (1976), Falling in Place (1980), Love Always (1985), Picturing Will (1990), Another You (1995), My Life, Starring Dara Falcon (1997), Park City (1998), and Perfect Recall (2002).In 2000 Beattie received the PEN/Malamud Prize for Excellence in Short Fiction. She teaches writing at the University of Virginia.

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