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Born April 10, 1954 (age 70)
San Francisco, California, United States ( 1954-04-10 ) Occupation Novelist, non-fiction writer, essayist, memoirist Genre Drama, humor, literary fiction People also search for Sam Lamott, Kenneth Church Lamott, Marianne Williamson Education Drew School, Goucher College Books Bird by Bird, Traveling Mercies, Help - Thanks - Wow, Small Victories: Spotting I, Operating Instructions: A Journal Profiles | ||
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Anne Lamott (born April 10, 1954) is an American novelist and non-fiction writer.
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- Hanging out with anne lamott point loma writer s symposium by the sea 2014
- 12 truths I learned from life and writing Anne Lamott
- Life and career
- Awards and honors
- References
She is also a progressive political activist, public speaker, and writing teacher. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, her nonfiction works are largely autobiographical. Marked by their self-deprecating humor and openness, Lamott's writings cover such subjects as alcoholism, single-motherhood, depression, and Christianity.
12 truths I learned from life and writing | Anne Lamott
Life and career
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. 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.
In 1994 Lamott was living in San Rafael, California.
Lamott's life was documented in Freida Lee Mock's 1999 documentary Bird by Bird with Annie: A Film Portrait of Writer Anne Lamott. Because of the documentary and her following on Facebook and other online networks, she is often called the "People's Author".
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.
Lamott is cited as a writer who captures well the style of narrative nonfiction called particularism, coined by Howard Freeman.
Awards and honors
Lamott was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985. She was inducted into the California Hall of Fame in 2010.