She has one brother, Jonathan, and a sister, Priscilla. Patty Dann was born on Octoin New York City to Michael Dann, a comedy writer-turned-television executive at NBC and CBS, and Joanne (née Himmell). She has also written nonfiction works, including The Butterfly Hours: Transforming Memories into Memoir, The Baby Boat: A Memoir of Adoption (1998), focusing on the adoption of her son, and The Goldfish Went on Vacation: A Memoir of Loss (2007), which reflected on the death of her husband. It was later made into a feature film of the same name in 1990.ĭann is also the author of the novels The Wright Sister (2020), Sweet & Crazy (2003) and Starfish (2013), the latter of which is a sequel to Mermaids. While working at the A&E network in 1986, she revised Mermaids, a coming-of-age novel she had written as her Master's thesis, which was subsequently published by Ticknor and Fields. She studied at the University of Oregon, and later earned an MFA in writing from Columbia University. Patty Dann (born October 30, 1953) is an American novelist and nonfiction writer.
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