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ANN BEATTIE has been included in four O. Henry Prize collections, in John Updike’s The Best American Short Stories of the Century, and in Jennifer Egan’s The Best American Short Stories 2014. Her collection The New Yorker Stories was selected as one of the ten best books of 2010 by the New York Times. She received the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in short fiction and the Rea Award for the Short Story. She was the 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 and Key West, Florida.