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Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the complexity and nuance that I hadn't realized was gone. With Lucy I was a native speaker.


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Bernard Academy a private non-parochial Catholic school for girls run by the Sisters of Mercy. Awards and honors
Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize (Taft)
PEN/Faulkner Award (Bel Canto)
Orange Prize (Bel Canto)
BookSense Book of the Year (Bel Canto)
National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (Bel Canto)
2011: Wellcome Trust Book Prize shortlist (State of Wonder)


Bibliography


Novels
The Patron Saint of Liars (1992)
Taft (1994)
The Magician's Assistant (1997)
Bel Canto (2001)
Run (2007)
State of Wonder (2011)


Nonfiction
Truth & Beauty: A Friendship (2004)
What now? (2008)
The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life (2011). Her third novel The Magician’s Assistant was released in 1997.

She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and received the Nashville Banner Tennessee Writer of the Year Award in 1994. She received the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2002 for her novel Bel Canto.

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