Author Connections

I've just started reading Ann Patchett's Run (only on Chapter 4, but very much enjoying it). Ann Patchett, for those of you who attended the last meeting, is the author of Bel Canto, reviewed by my sister (for those of you who didn't attend, I promise, cross my heart and hope to die... well, maybe just cross my heart, that I'll get the update posted). I checked out her website, and saw a link to non-fiction book she wrote - Truth and Beauty. It's about her friendship with Lucy Grealy, the author of a Virginia-reviewed (IBC 5) book, Autobiography of a Face, written after Lucy passed away from cancer. I haven't read it yet, but there's an interesting article and interview here about the flap raised when Truth and Beauty was assigned for a course at Clemson, and Ann's subsequent speech there (including a clip from the speech).