Ann Beattie

Ann Beattie’s next book, Mrs. Nixon, will be published by Scribner in November. She has just been given the Mary McCarthy Award by Bard College, and teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Virginia. Ann Beattie: The New Yorker Stories was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2010 by the New York Times.

Nonfiction – Issue 11

The Laughter Downstairs: Nancy Hale’s “The Earliest Dreams”

Nancy Hale was married to the eminent critic and classics editor Fredson Bowers and living in Albemarle County when I went to the University of Virginia to begin my first job after graduate school (a one-year position). I was twenty-seven.…