Anne Lamott
Born 10 April 1954
A novelist and writer of non-fiction, Anne Lamott was born in San Francisco in 1954. She wrote for the newspaper at Goucher College for the two years she attended. She wrote her first novel, Hard Laughter for her father after he was diagnosed with brain cancer.
Howard Freeman's term "particularism" is aptly applied to her narrative nonfiction. Lamott draws on her own life and experiences in her writing, covering topics such as alcoholism, depression, being a single mother, Christianity, and the intersection between them.
Quotes
“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
Bird by Bird “Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison, and then waiting around for the rat to die.”
Traveling Mercies “You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
p. 22 “The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty.”
Plan B “So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.”
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Quotes from Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0), chosen with AI.
Books by Anne Lamott in order
Books by Anne Lamott in the order they were published, from Hard Laughter (1979) to Dusk Night Dawn (2021).
- 1Hard Laughter
Hard Laughter1979 - 2Rosie
Rosie1983 - 3Joe Jones
Joe Jones1985 - 4All New People
All New People1989 - 5Operating Instructions
Operating Instructions1993 - 6Bird by Bird
Bird by Bird1994 - 7Word by Word
Word by Word1996 - 8Crooked Little Heart
Crooked Little Heart1997 - 9Traveling Mercies
Traveling Mercies1999 - 10Niesforna DuszaNiesforna Dusza2001
- 11Blue Shoe
Blue Shoe2002 - 12Plan B
Plan B2004 - 13Plan B Further Thoughts on Faith
Plan B Further Thoughts on Faith2005 - 14Grace
Grace2007 - 15Imperfect Birds
Imperfect Birds2010 - 16Help, Thanks, Wow
Help, Thanks, Wow2012 - 17Some Assembly Required
Some Assembly Required2012 - 18Stitches
Stitches2013 - 19Hope and Renewal CollectionHope and Renewal Collection2014
- 20Small Victories
Small Victories2014 - 21Hallelujah Anyway
Hallelujah Anyway2017 - 22Almost Everything
Almost Everything2018 - 23Dusk Night Dawn
Dusk Night Dawn2021