Ann Beattie (born 1947) is an American short story writer and novelist. She received an award for excellence from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and her work has been compared to that of JD Salinger, John Cheever, and John Updike.

Born in Washington, DC, she grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland. She gained attention in the early 1970s with short stories published in the Western Humanities Review , the Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker. Her writing, notable for keen observation and dry, matter-of-fact irony, chronicles the disillusionments of the upper-middle-class generation that grew up in the 1960s. In 1976 she published her first book of short stories, Distortions, and her first novel, Chilly Scenes of Winter, which was later made into a film. She has taught at Harvard College, the University of Virginia and the University of Connecticut.

Short Story Collections

• Distortions(1976)
• Secrets and Surprises (1978)
• The Burning House (1982)
• What Was Mine (1991)
• Where You’ll Find Me and Other Stories (1993)
• Park City (1998)
• Perfect Recall (2000)
• Follies: New Stories (2005)

Novels

• Chilly Scenes of Winter (1976)
• Falling in Place (1981)
• Picturing Will (1990)
• Another You (1995)
• My Life, Starring Dara Falcon (1997)
• The Doctor's House (2002)