Ann Beattie has been
included in four O. Henry Award Collections and in John Updike’s The Best American Short Stories of the
Century. In 2000, she received the PEN/Malamud Award for achievement in the
short story form. In 2005, she received the Rea Award for the Short Story. She
and her husband live in Key West, Florida, and Charlottesville, Virginia, where
she is Edgar Allan Poe professor of literature and creative writing at the
University of Virginia. |