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Ann Hood was born on 9 December, 1956 in West Warwick, Rhode Island, U.S., is an American novelist. Discover Ann Hood's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?

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Occupation Novelist short-story writer memoirist
Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 9 December, 1956
Birthday 9 December
Birthplace West Warwick, Rhode Island, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1956

Ann Hood (born December 9, 1956) is an American novelist and short story writer; she has also written nonfiction.

The author of fourteen novels, four memoirs, a short story collection, a ten book series for middle readers and one young adult novel.

Her essays and short stories have appeared in many journals, magazines, and anthologies, including The Paris Review, Ploughshares,, and Tin House. Hood is a regular contributor to The New York Times' Op-Ed page, Home Economics column.

Her most recent work is "Fly Girl: A Memoir," published with W.W. Norton and Company in 2022.

She is a faculty member in the MFA in Creative Writing program at The New School in New York City.

Hood was born in West Warwick, Rhode Island.

She now lives with her husband Michael Ruhlman and their children.

After Hood earned her BA in English from the University of Rhode Island, she worked for the now-defunct airline TWA as a flight attendant, living in Boston and Saint Louis and later moving to New York City.

She attended graduate school at New York University, studying American Literature.

1960

Hood says the book began as a series of short stories about three women who went to college together in the 1960s.

A year earlier, her older brother, Skip, died in a freak accident and Hood was struggling with how to cope with the loss.

At a writer’s conference, Hood was convinced by the writer Nicholas Delbanco that she was really writing a novel, and from there she began to connect the stories.

1983

Hood began writing her first novel Somewhere Off The Coast Of Maine in 1983 while working as a flight attendant — and while attending graduate school —writing whenever she could during train rides to JFK airport or in the galleys of the airplane while passengers slept.

During a furlough from the airline, she worked at the Spring Street Bookstore in Soho and Tony Roma's while writing Somewhere Off The Coast Of Maine.

Like much of her work, Somewhere Off The Coast Of Maine draws upon her own life.

1986

Hood’s flight attendant career ended in 1986 when TWA went on strike and the flight attendants found themselves soon “replaced.” With more time to devote to writing, her stories and essays began to appear in Mademoiselle, Redbook, Story, Self, Glamour, New Woman, among others.

1987

In 1987 the novel was published by Bantam Books as one of the launch books for their original paperback series, Bantam New Fiction.

1999

Do Not Go Gentle: My Search For Miracles in a Cynical Time (Picador, 1999) follows Hood’s travels to Chimayo, New Mexico in search of a miracle cure for her father’s lung cancer.

The dirt at El Santuario de Chimayo, a Roman Catholic church, is believed to have healing properties and thousands flock to the site each year.

Her father’s tumor did disappear, but he later died from complications from chemotherapy.

Hood initially wrote about this experience in an essay for Doubletake magazine.

That essay went on to win a Pushcart Prize.

Hood’s editor at Picador urged her to turn it into a book.

2000

Hood’s short story "Total Cave Darkness," about an alcoholic woman who runs away with a Protestant minister nine years younger than she is, appeared in The Paris Review in 2000.

2002

On April 18, 2002, Hood's five-year-old daughter, Grace, died from a virulent form of strep.

2004

It is also the opening story in her collection of stories An Ornithologist's Guide To Life. The title story appeared in Glimmer Train in 2004 about a young girl who slowly discovers her mother is having an affair with their neighbor.

Her stories have also appeared in Tin House, Ploughshares, Good Housekeeping, Story, Five Points, and others.

Hood is the best-selling author of fourteen novels, including The Obituary Writer, in which she explores the theme of grief and "the remedies that can ease, if never entirely banish" it, and in which she explores gender roles and complications of romantic love.

A previous novel, The Knitting Circle, also explored the theme of grief.

2008

Hood’s best-selling memoir Comfort: A Journey Through Grief (W. W. Norton & Company, 2008), chronicling the death of her five-year-old daughter Grace and her subsequent search for healing, was named one of the top ten non-fiction books of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly and was a New York Times Editor's Choice.

2013

She is the editor of the anthology Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting (W. W. Norton & Company, 2013), in which her essay "Ten Things I Learned From Knitting" appears as well as its sequel "Knitting Pearls: Writers Writing About Knitting".

Hood is a faculty member in the MFA in Creative Writing program at The New School in New York City.

She also teaches at New York University.

Hood has also taught at the Eckerd College Writers’ Conference, The Maui Writers’ Conference, and The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

She is the recipient of the Paul Bowles Prize for Short Fiction, two Pushcart Prizes, and a Best American Spiritual Writing Award.

Hood lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

She has two children, daughter Annabelle and son Sam, both with former husband Lorne.

Annabelle is adopted.

She is currently married to writer Michael Ruhlman.

2016

Her most recent book is The Book That Matters Most which was published in 2016.