- Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott (born
10 April 1954 , inSan Francisco ) is a political activist, progressive and author of several novels and works of non-fiction. Based in theSan Francisco Bay Area , her non-fiction works are largely autobiographical, with strong doses of self-deprecating humor. Marked by their transparency, Lamott's writings covered such subjects asalcoholism , single motherhood, andChristianity . [cite_journal |url=http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/05/22/lamott_fight_son/ |last=Lamott |first=Anne |journal=Salon |title=My son, the stranger |accessdate=2008-03-08]Lamott has explained: "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." [cite_web |url=http://religion.beloblog.com/archives/2008/02/quote_of_the_day_60.html |work=Religion Blog |publisher=Dallas Morning News |date=2008-02-10 |title=Quote of the Day]
Lamott is a graduate of Drew College Preparatory School in San Francisco, California. Her father,
Kenneth Lamott , was also a writer and was the basis of her first novel "Hard Laughter".Lamott's life is documented in
Freida Lee Mock 's 1999 documentary "Bird by Bird with Annie: A Film Portrait of Writer Anne Lamott". [cite video |people = Freida Lee Mock (Director) |date2 = 1999-08-01 |title = Bird by Bird with Annie |url = http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202259/ |medium = Documentary |publisher = Vanguard International Cinema]Lamott is cited as a writer who captures well the style of narrative nonfiction called "particularism [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particularism#Literary_particularism] ," coined by Howard Freeman.
Novels
*cite book
last = Lamott
first = Anne
title =Hard Laughter
publisher =Viking Press
year = 1980
isbn=0670361402
*cite book
last = Lamott
first = Anne
title =Rosie
publisher =Viking Press
year = 1983
isbn=0670608289
*cite book
last = Lamott
first = Anne
title =Joe Jones
publisher =North Point Press
year = 1985
isbn=0865472092
*cite book
last = Lamott
first = Anne
title =All New People
publisher =North Point Press
year = 1989
isbn=0865473943
*cite book
last = Lamott
first = Anne
title =Crooked Little Heart
publisher =Pantheon Books
year = 1997
isbn=0679435212
*cite book
last = Lamott
first = Anne
title =Blue Shoe
publisher =Riverhead Books
year = 2002
isbn=1573222267Non-fiction
*cite book
last = Lamott
first = Anne
title =Operating Instructions: A Journal Of My Son’s First Year
publisher =Pantheon Books
year = 1993
isbn=0679420916
*cite book
last = Lamott
first = Anne
title =Bird by Bird : Some Instructions on Writing and Life
publisher =Pantheon Books
year = 1994
isbn=0679435204
*cite book
last = Lamott
first = Anne
title =Traveling Mercies : Some Thoughts on Faith
publisher =Pantheon Books
year = 1999
isbn= 0679442405
*cite book
last = Lamott
first = Anne
title =Plan B : Further Thoughts on Faith
publisher =Riverhead Books
year = 2005
isbn= 1573222992
*cite book
last = Lamott
first = Anne
title =Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
publisher =Riverhead Books
year = 2007
isbn= 1594489424Quotes
* "Laughter is carbonated holiness." (Plan B)
* "When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader." (Bird by Bird)
* "You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." (Traveling Mercies; although on page 22 of Bird by Bird she attributes this quote to "my priest friend Tom")"References
External links
* [http://dir.salon.com/topics/anne_lamott/ "Salon.com": articles by Anne Lamott]
* [http://www.barclayagency.com/lamott.html/ "Lecturing" Steven Barclay Agency]
* [http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200703/20070328_lamott.html/ Tavis Smiley interview with Anne Lamott,March 28 ,2007 ]
* [http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/04/11/midmorning2/ Minnesota Public Radio InterviewApril 11 ,2007 ]
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