Ann Bauer

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Ann Bauer
Occupation Novelist
Genre Fiction, Novel, Essay
Notable worksA Wild Ride Up the Cupboards (novel, 2005), The Forever Marriage (novel, 2012)
Website
www.annbauer.com

Ann Bauer is an American essayist and novelist. [1]

Life and career

Ann Bauer has worked as a writing professor, a food critic, a novelist, a journalist and an advertising copywriter. She has taught at the University of Iowa, Brown University, Roger Williams University, Johns Hopkins University and Macalester College.

Contents

While in the Iowa MFA program, Bauer wrote most of her first novel, A Wild Ride Up The Cupboards, which came out with Scribner [2] in 2005. Wild Ride was named a Best Book of 2005 by the Minneapolis Star Tribune and The Providence Journal . Bauer began writing for Salon that same year, eventually becoming a regular contributor. She co-authored her second book, a work of nonfiction billed as a "culinary memoir," with Mitch Omer, the founder of Hell's Kitchen. Damn Good Food was published by Borealis Books in 2009. Her second novel, The Forever Marriage, was published by The Overlook Press [3] in June 2012. Her third novel, Forgiveness 4 You was also published by Overlook in March 2015.

Works

Bauer's essays have appeared in Elle, The Washington Post , [4] The New York Times , [5] Redbook , and The Sun . She has published three novels and a cookbook and culinary memoir (with co-author Mitch Omer).

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References

  1. "Simon & Schuster".
  2. "A Wild Ride up the Cupboards".
  3. "The Forever Marriage". Archived from the original on 2018-12-31. Retrieved 2012-05-06.
  4. Bauer, Ann (July 20, 2008). "Autism: Where's the Support?". The Washington Post.
  5. Bauer, Ann (August 31, 2008). "Modern Love". The New York Times.