Anne Lamott
Novelist and nonfiction writer
Anne Lamott is an American novelist and nonfiction writer who also teaches writing. Her nonfiction draws openly on her own life.
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American Born 1954 in San Francisco, United States
About Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott was born on April 10, 1954, in San Francisco, and is based in Marin County, California. She writes novels and nonfiction, speaks publicly, teaches writing and is a progressive political activist. She is a New York Times bestselling author. Her nonfiction is largely autobiographical, with self-deprecating humor, and touches on alcoholism, single motherhood, depression and Christianity. Bird by Bird and Stitches are among her books in our catalog, as is Dusk, Night, Dawn. Her father, Kenneth Lamott, was a writer too, and he inspired her first novel, Hard Laughter. Freida Lee Mock made a documentary film about her in 1999. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been inducted into the California Hall of Fame.