Ann Beattie’s advent in the 1970s as the voice of a generation helped create a global short story renaissance. Her explorations of the subtle cruelties and desires of the heart have continually sustained and advanced the story form, and she has been honored with the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award for the Short Story. She is the author of numerous books, including the collections Onlookers (Scribner, 2023), Follies, The State We’re In, and The Accomplished Guest, as well as the novels Chilly Scenes of Winter, Another You, Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life, and A Wonderful Stroke of Luck. Beattie lives in Maine and Key West.
Photograph by Sigrid Estrada.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- When People Fall, a short story, in Fall 2022
- Borderlines, Real and Imaginary: Elizabeth Spencer’s “The Runaways”, an essay, in Spring 2022
- Telepathic Message in Time of Crisis, a short story, in Winter 2021
- On Nancy Hale’s “Flotsam”, an essay, in Fall 2019
- Fifteen Ways to Avoid Gardening, an essay, in Spring 2019
- OTP, a short story, in Fall 2019
- Secret and Suggestion in Peter Taylor’s “Allegiance”, an essay, in Fall 2017
- Certain Friends for Certain Secrets, a short story, in Winter 2017
- Edward, the Funny One, a short story, in Winter 2016
- The Stroke, a short story, in Winter 2015
- Narrative 10, an interview, in Fall 2014
- Keep Away, a short story, in Fall 2011
- Four-Night Fight, a narrative outloud - video, in Spring 2012
- Four-Night Fight, a narrative outloud - audio, in Spring 2011
- The Caterer, a short story, in Spring 2010
- Letters to a Young Writer, a feature, in Spring 2009
- Find and Replace, a narrative outloud - audio, in Winter 2010
- Clips from Our Interview with Ann Beattie, an audio interview, in Winter 2013
- The Rock, a short story, in Fall 2005
- Just Going Out, a short story, in Spring 2005
Works that have appeared in Narrative about Ann Beattie
- Ann Beattie, a profile, in Spring 2007