Ann Packer

Photograph by Elena Seibert

About The Author

Ann Packer is the author of six works of fiction, including the bestselling novels The Children’s Crusade and The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, which received the Kate Chopin Literary Award, among many other prizes and honors. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and in the O. Henry Prize Stories anthologies, and her novels have been published around the world. She divides her time among New York, the Bay Area, and Maine. Her most recent book is Some Bright Nowhere.

Books by Ann Packer

The Children's Crusade

A Novel

By Ann Packer
From the author of the Oprah Book Club Pick Some Bright Nowhere, a “tour de force family drama” (Elle) that explores the secrets and desires, the remnant wounds and saving graces of one family, over the course of five decades.
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