Ann Patty

Ann Patty worked in New York trade publishing for more than 30 years. She was the founder and publisher of The Poseidon Press and an executive editor at Crown Publishers and Harcourt. Her first discovery was V. C. Andrews. Her other career highlights include the U.S. hardcover debuts of George R. R. Martin, Graham Swift, Mary Gaitskill, Clive Barker, Frank Zappa, Michael Moore, Siri Hustvedt, and Kristin Hannah. She was the editor of Steven Millhauser’s Pulitzer Prize winning Martin Dressler and Yann Martel’s Booker Prize-winning Life of Pi. Her memoir, Living with a Dead Language: My Romance with Latin, was

published by Viking Penguin in 2016. She is now a freelance editor and teaches ESL and Latin classes. Her essays have been published in both print and online publications from The Wall Street Journal to Oprah.com.