Ann Beattie

Ann Beattie, a contributing editor of the Scholar, has published 20 novels and short story collections. She is the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award for the Short Story. Her work appears in five O. Henry Prize Stories anthologies as well as in Best American Short Stories of the Century.

One Look Back

“Now, after days of asking, she and her mother were finally minutes away from the cabin.”

By Ann Beattie | Thursday August 31, 2023

Remembering Alison

A writer who relished the extremes in life and found humor in the darkest regions

By Ann Beattie | Monday April 10, 2023

Summertime

And the lickin’ is easy

By Ann Beattie | Thursday July 1, 2021

Literary Information Derived From Privileged Writers

Did they know how good they had it?

By Ann Beattie | Monday March 4, 2019

A Dream of a Writer

Peter Taylor’s stories reveal an artist immersed in the quotidian who rose to the complexities of the heart and psyche

By Ann Beattie | Tuesday September 5, 2017

(Full Disclosure)

Conflicts, more or less of interest

By Ann Beattie | Monday March 6, 2017

Break the Rules

By Ann Beattie | Monday October 6, 2014

On Visitors

When the Bachelor Girl and the Red Death come calling, are they mirrors for our eccentricities?

By Ann Beattie | Monday June 9, 2014

One Look Back

By Ann Beattie | Thursday August 31, 2023

Remembering Alison

By Ann Beattie | Monday April 10, 2023

Summertime

By Ann Beattie | Thursday July 1, 2021
Close-up photo of an orchid

A Dream of a Writer

By Ann Beattie | Tuesday September 5, 2017

(Full Disclosure)

By Ann Beattie | Monday March 6, 2017

Break the Rules

By Ann Beattie | Monday October 6, 2014

On Visitors

By Ann Beattie | Monday June 9, 2014

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