JULIA GLASS’S bestselling first novel, Three Junes, won the National Book Award for fiction. At the award ceremony, she dedicated her speech
to fellow “late bloomers,” having written the novel at the age
of 46 on the kitchen tale of her cramped Greenwich Village apartment. Richard Russo writes that “Julia Glass’s talent
sends chills up my spine; Three
Junes is a marvel.” According to Michael Cunningham, “Three
Junes almost threatens to burst with all the lifre it contains. Glass’s ability to illuminate and deepen the
mysteries of her characters’ lives is extraordinary.” She has also received three Nelson Algren Awards, the Tobias Wolff
Award, and the Faulkner Society Medal for Best Novella. She is currently at work on a new novel.
ACCORDING TO Madison Smartt Bell, “ Bel Canto has all the qualities one has come to expect from a classic
Ann Patchett novel: grace, beauty, elegance, and magic.” Bel Canto,
Patchett’s bestselling novel, won the PEN/ Faulkner Award and
the Orange Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics’
Circle Award. Her three
previous novels are The Patron Saint of Liars, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year;
Taft, winner of the
Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize; and The
Magician’s Assistant, which the San
Francisco Chronicle calls “enchanting . . . novelist Ann
Patchett is the real thing.” Bel Canto
is currently being made into a feature film.
