Ann Beattie has been included in five O. Henry Award Collections, in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Short Stories of the Century. She is the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for achievement in the short story. In 2005, she received the Rea Award for the Short Story. The former Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia, she is a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She and her husband, Lincoln Perry, live in Maine, Virginia, and Florida.

• ContentsHurricane CarleyvilleThe Big-Breasted PilgrimMermaidsCat PeopleThe Women of This WorldThe Infamous Fall of Howell the ClownSee the PyramidsIn IronsCoydogPerfect RecallThe Famous Poet, Amid BougainvilleaThe Big-Breasted Pilgrim

The Washington Post Book World One of our era's most vital masters of the short form.

Ann Beattie has been included in five O. Henry Award Collections, in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Short Stories of the Century. She is the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for achievement in the short story. In 2005, she received the Rea Award for the Short Story. The former Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia, she is a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She and her husband, Lincoln Perry, live in Maine, Virginia, and Florida.

• ContentsHurricane CarleyvilleThe Big-Breasted PilgrimMermaidsCat PeopleThe Women of This WorldThe Infamous Fall of Howell the ClownSee the PyramidsIn IronsCoydogPerfect RecallThe Famous Poet, Amid BougainvilleaThe Big-Breasted Pilgrim

The Washington Post Book World One of our era's most vital masters of the short form.

Ann Beattie has been included in five O. Henry Award Collections, in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Short Stories of the Century. She is the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for achievement in the short story. In 2005, she received the Rea Award for the Short Story. The former Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia, she is a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She and her husband, Lincoln Perry, live in Maine, Virginia, and Florida.

• ContentsHurricane CarleyvilleThe Big-Breasted PilgrimMermaidsCat PeopleThe Women of This WorldThe Infamous Fall of Howell the ClownSee the PyramidsIn IronsCoydogPerfect RecallThe Famous Poet, Amid BougainvilleaThe Big-Breasted Pilgrim

The Washington Post Book World One of our era's most vital masters of the short form.