Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott was born on April 10, 1954 in San Francisco, California. She began writing when she returned to California after spending two years at Goucher College, but her early efforts, mostly short stories, met with little success. The turning point in her writing came with a family crisis, when mehr anzeigen her father was diagnosed with brain cancer. She wrote a series of short pieces about the traumatic effect that serious illness has on a family. These pieces were published, and they eventually became the basis of her first novel, Hard Laughter, published in 1980. During the 1980s, she wrote three additional novels, Rosie, Joe Jones and All New People. In 1989, her life took another turn when her son was born. Her next book, published in 1993, was a non-fiction effort called Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year. She wrote ironically, but candidly, about her struggles to adjust to her new role as a mother and a single parent, and her experiences with everything from sleep deprivation to financial and emotional uncertainty to concerns about what she would tell her son when he was old enough to ask about his absent father. Operating Instructions proved to be even more successful than her novels, and led to interviews on network news programs and a regular spot on National Public Radio. Her other works include Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life; Crooked Little Heart; Blue Shoe, Imperfect Birds, and Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son. Her title Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. Her title Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair and Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace also made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Bird by Bird - Wort für Wort. Anleitungen zum Schreiben und Leben als Schriftsteller (1994) 10,181 Exemplare
This Messy Magnificent Life: A Field Guide 2 Exemplare
Because I said so! Author Anne Lamott doesn't think twice about making her teenage son go to church, even though he… (2005) 2 Exemplare
March madness: for author Anne Lamott, spring's the season of wildflowers, doomed love, deer ticks, and utter joy. (2012) 1 Exemplar
12 truths I learned from life and writing 1 Exemplar
Lamott, Anne Archive 1 Exemplar
Time lost and found: turn off Twitter, Anne Lamott says. And don't clean the house. That's what it takes to create the… (2010) 1 Exemplar
Parkade, The 1 Exemplar
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The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them (2006) — Mitwirkender — 389 Exemplare
Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (2000) — Mitwirkender — 234 Exemplare
Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (1996) — Mitwirkender — 201 Exemplare
Maybe Baby: 28 Writers Tell the Truth About Skepticism, Infertility, Baby Lust, Childlessness, Ambivalence, and How… (2006) — Vorwort, einige Ausgaben — 127 Exemplare
The Life of Meaning: Reflections on Faith, Doubt, and Repairing the World (2007) — Mitwirkender — 125 Exemplare
The Love Wins Companion: A Study Guide for Those Who Want to Go Deeper (2011) — Mitwirkender — 77 Exemplare
Between the Listening and the Telling: How Stories Can Save Us (2022) — Vorwort, einige Ausgaben — 32 Exemplare
Bird by bird with Annie: a portrait of writer Anne Lamott [video recording] (2009) — cast — 9 Exemplare
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- Geburtstag
- 1954-04-10
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- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Wohnorte
- San Francisco, California, USA
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- Drew College Preparatory School
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- Lamott, Sam (son)
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- Guggenheim Fellowship (1985)
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- Steven Barclay Agency (12 Western Avenue • Petaluma, California • 94952)
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- Born in San Francisco, Anne Lamott is the author of five novels and three works of nonfiction, and the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. She has been a book reviewer for Mademoiselle, a restaurant critic for California magazine, and a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. She also writes a popular column for the on-line magazine Salon, which Time magazine noted "could alone be the Best of the Web." Anne Lamott lives in northern California with her son, Sam.
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Obviously well intentioned with some nuggets of truth, but Lamott’s annoyingly loose, endlessly rambling and wordy style drove me away from the book well before completion.
How wonderful are public libraries! You can borrow books (like this one) free of charge and (even better) return them unfinished and guilt-free, not having spent a cent. This was not a book I’d have wanted to pay for.
How wonderful are public libraries! You can borrow books (like this one) free of charge and (even better) return them unfinished and guilt-free, not having spent a cent. This was not a book I’d have wanted to pay for.
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This is an excellent book. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s really like to be a writer or thought about writing yourself read this book!
This is an excellent book. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s really like to be a writer or thought about writing yourself read this book!
Writing is lonely. So whenever I start a new project, I look for a book about it I haven’t read yet. It’s like having a sympathetic friend holding my hand, reassuring me.
Somehow, the book I choose is precisely what I need. Well, that’s not always true, but when it’s not, I quickly spot it and move on to another. But this one filled the bill. It came out thirty years ago, but I only recently became aware of it, although I remember hearing her spots on NPR way back when.
Lamott’s advice in this book is sensible, even if little of it is new. It’s not a problem; I need to hear it all again with each new project. And I’ve never read it in such a humorous, self-deprecating manner. She and her friends sound like a lovable, walking collective of personality disorders (I think those are really her words, but right now, I can’t find the quote). Somehow, they keep each other’s spirits up.
She is honest about the rivalry and jealousy writers experience. She also makes it clear (repeatedly) that publication is not the main reason to write, much less the gateway to fixing everything wrong in your life. If, toward the end, her reporting of her neuroses wears thin through repetition, along the way, there are descriptions of it that had me laughing out loud.
This book helped me get through the first five days of a new project, allowing me to make a solid start. Thank you, Anne, for being there.… (mehr)
Somehow, the book I choose is precisely what I need. Well, that’s not always true, but when it’s not, I quickly spot it and move on to another. But this one filled the bill. It came out thirty years ago, but I only recently became aware of it, although I remember hearing her spots on NPR way back when.
Lamott’s advice in this book is sensible, even if little of it is new. It’s not a problem; I need to hear it all again with each new project. And I’ve never read it in such a humorous, self-deprecating manner. She and her friends sound like a lovable, walking collective of personality disorders (I think those are really her words, but right now, I can’t find the quote). Somehow, they keep each other’s spirits up.
She is honest about the rivalry and jealousy writers experience. She also makes it clear (repeatedly) that publication is not the main reason to write, much less the gateway to fixing everything wrong in your life. If, toward the end, her reporting of her neuroses wears thin through repetition, along the way, there are descriptions of it that had me laughing out loud.
This book helped me get through the first five days of a new project, allowing me to make a solid start. Thank you, Anne, for being there.… (mehr)
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In this profound and funny book, Lamott calls for each of us to rediscover the nuggets of hope and wisdom that are buried within us that can make life sweeter than we ever imagined. Divided into short chapters that explore life's essential truths, Almost Everything pinpoints these moments of insight as it shines an encouraging light forward.… (mehr)