| 词条 | Ann Beattie |
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| name = Ann Beattie | image = Ann Beattie headshot.jpg | caption = in April 2006 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1947|9|8}} | birth_place = Washington, D.C. | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Short story writer, Novelist, Professor | genre = Literary | period = | movement = | awards = 1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters 2000 PEN/Malamud Award 2005 Rea Award for the Short Story | website = | spouse = | children = |signature = }} Ann Beattie (born September 8, 1947) is an American novelist and short story writer. She has received an award for excellence from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the short story form. CareerBorn in Washington, D.C., Beattie grew up in Chevy Chase, Washington, D.C. and attended Woodrow Wilson High School.[1] She holds an undergraduate degree from American University and a master's degree from the University of Connecticut. She gained attention in the early 1970s with short stories published in The Western Humanities Review, Ninth Letter, the Atlantic Monthly, and The New Yorker. In 1976, she published her first book of short stories, Distortions, and her first novel, Chilly Scenes of Winter, which was later made into a film. Beattie's style has evolved over the years. In 1998, she published Park City, a collection of old and new short stories, about which Christopher Lehman-Haupt wrote in The New York Times:{{quote|[The stories] are arranged chronologically, which allows the reader to trace the development of the author's technique. It also lets one see the contrast between the latest stories and the earliest, an experience of sufficient subtlety and complexity to reduce one in this limited space to the following gross generalizations: Gone is the deadpan style of the early and middle stories, in which Ms. Beattie lays out on a dissecting table the behavior of her disaffected post-counterculture yuppies and then leaves it up to the reader to do the anatomizing. Gone, too, are the stabs of lyricism of the middle period, particularly the endings that try poetically to recapitulate the story's action but feel tacked on and artificial. .. In the best of these stories, Ms. Beattie's ability both to commit herself and to knit her commitment into the finest needlework of her artistry contrasts sharply with the irritating moral passivity of her earlier work.[2]}} Beattie has taught at Harvard College and the University of Connecticut and was for a long time associated with the University of Virginia, where she was first appointed as a part-time lecturer in 1980. She later became Edgar Allan Poe Chair of the Department of English and Creative Writing in 2000 and remained at UVA until 2013, when she resigned over disappointment at the direction in which the university was heading.[3] In 2005 she was selected as winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story, in recognition of her outstanding achievement in that genre. Her first novel, Chilly Scenes of Winter (1976), was adapted as a film alternatively titled Chilly Scenes of Winter or Head Over Heels in 1979 by Joan Micklin Silver, starring John Heard, Mary Beth Hurt, and Peter Riegert. The first version was not well received by audiences, though upon its re-release in 1982, with a new title and ending to match that in book,[4] the movie was successful, and is now considered a cult classic.[5] She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.[6] Recent worksAppraisal has been mixed. Writing in The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani called her latest novel Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life (2011) "preposterous," "narcissistic," and "self-indulgent"—the "sort of pretentious volume that makes people hate academics." [7] In The Washington Post, Book World Editor Marie Arana characterized it as "a bill of goods" devoid of "anything resembling a story line" that is "less about the eponymous Mrs. than about an endless parade of wordsmiths trotted out for show." The book "is not, except in the most perfunctory way, about Mrs. Nixon," Arana determined. "It's about Beattie."[8] "[T]he book does not succeed," wrote William Deresiewicz in The Nation. "Its bric-a-brac approach is ultimately wearying: nothing ever quite gets under way. One ends up feeling as if Beattie has spent the whole performance clearing her throat. . . . Her subject often seems a pretext, something just to get the conversation started."[9] By contrast, Dawn Raffel, in the San Francisco Chronicle, called the book "splendidly tricky", "at times... movingly lyrical", and said "Nothing in Mrs. Nixon is perfectly clear, and that is the source of its power." [10] The State We're In, Beattie's most recent collection of short stories, is set in Maine and was described by Mary Pols in The New York Times Book Review as "slippery" and "peculiar." Pols wrote, "I read this collection twice trying to unravel the mystery of what else, beyond Maine, ties these unfinished-feeling stories together."[11]Beattie's papers are held by the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia. PersonalBeattie was previously married to the writer David Gates. The couple had one son and later divorced in 1980. In 1985, Beattie met the painter Lincoln Perry and the couple married in 1998. She and Perry both taught at the University of Virginia until 2013. Upon both leaving, the two moved to Key West where she continues to write. In 2005 the two collaborated on a published retrospective of Perry's paintings. Entitled Lincoln Perry’s Charlottesville, the book contains an introductory essay and artist's interview by Beattie. BibliographyChildren's Books
Short story collections
Novels
Novellas
References1. ^{{cite book|last=Champion|first=Laurie|title=Contemporary American Women Fiction Writers: An A-To-Z Guide|year=2002|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|page=28}} 2. ^{{cite news |last=Lehman-Haupt |first=Christopher |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/08/books/books-of-the-times-dissecting-yuppies-with-precision.html |title=Dissecting Yuppies With Precision |work=The New York Times |date=8 June 1998}} 3. ^{{cite web |last1=Hammond |first1=Ruth |title=Ann Beattie to Leave UVa |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/Ann-Beattie-to-Leave-UVa/136479 |website=The Chronicle of Higher Education |accessdate=13 February 2019}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/06/28/specials/beattie-chilly.html|title=How 'Chilly Scenes' Was Rescued|work=The New York Times|date=October 10, 1982}} 5. ^Turner Classic Movies, Cult Movies Showcase 6. ^{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|accessdate=May 29, 2011}} 7. ^{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/books/mrs-nixon-a-novelist-imagines-a-life-by-ann-beattie-review.html | work=The New York Times | first=Michiko | last=Kakutani | title=‘Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life,' by Ann Beattie - Review | date=12 December 2011}} 8. ^https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/self-absorbed-mrs-nixon-its-all-about-ann-beattie/2011/11/09/gIQAoletIN_story.html 9. ^http://www.thenation.com/article/beattitudes-ann-beattie/ 10. ^{{cite news| url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/11/RVJS1LOIJ1.DTL | work=The San Francisco Chronicle | first=Dawn | last=Raffel | title='Mrs. Nixon,' by Anne Beattie: review | date=14 November 2011}} 11. ^https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/books/review/ann-beatties-the-state-were-in.html External links{{Portal|Biography}}
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