Anne Lamott

Anne Lamott (born April 10, 1954) is an American novelist and nonfiction writer.

She is also a progressive political activist, public speaker, and writing teacher. Lamott is based in Marin County, California. Her nonfiction works are largely autobiographical.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Lamott's writings, marked by their self-deprecating humor and openness, cover such subjects as alcoholism, single-motherhood, depression, and Christianity.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Early life and education

Lamott was born in San Francisco, and is a graduate of Drew School. She was a student at Goucher College for two years where she wrote for the newspaper.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Her father, Kenneth Lamott, was also a writer. Her first published novel Hard Laughter was written for him after his diagnosis of brain cancer. She has one son, Sam, who was born in August 1989 and a grandson, Jax, born in July 2009.<ref name="CNN">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Career

Lamott's life was documented in Freida Lee Mock's 1999 documentary Bird by Bird with Annie: A Film Portrait of Writer Anne Lamott.<ref>Template:Cite video</ref> Because of the documentary and her following on Facebook and other online networks, she is often called the "People's Author".<ref name="PBSSmiley">Template:Cite news</ref>

Lamott has described why she writes:

I try to write the books I would love to come upon, that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness—and that can make me laugh. When I am reading a book like this, I feel rich and profoundly relieved to be in the presence of someone who will share the truth with me, and throw the lights on a little, and I try to write these kinds of books. Books, for me, are medicine.<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Dead link</ref>

Lamott was featured on the second episode of the first season of the show The Midnight Gospel.

Awards and honors

Lamott was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> She was inducted into the California Hall of Fame in 2010.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Personal life

Lamott was born in San Francisco, California on April 10, 1954 to her mother, Dorothy Lamott, and the writer Kenneth Lamott, who served as Anne Lamott's inspiration.

On April 13, 2019, at the age of 65, Lamott married Neal Allen, 63, a former vice president for marketing at the McKesson Corporation in San Francisco. He is a twice-divorced father of four, who left his job at McKesson to devote himself to writing.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The couple met in August 2016. Lamott has a son named Sam (born in 1989) from a previous relationship.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Bibliography

Novels

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Nonfiction

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Further reading

• Bochynski, Pegge. (2010) "Anne Lamott" in American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies, Supplement XX, Mary Antin to Phillis Wheatley. Ed. Jay Parini. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons p131-146.
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• Vandenburgh, Jane. (2010) Architecture of the Novel: A Writer's Handbook. Anne Lamott (Foreword). Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Template:ISBN

External links

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• Salon.com: articles by Anne Lamott
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• Write TV Public Television Interview (2004)
• Minnesota Public Radio Interview (2007)
• Interview for Writers on the Record (2007)
• Goodreads.com: Author profile: Anne Lamott
• TED.com: "12 truths I learned from life and writing", a talk by Anne Lamott (2017)