Patty Dann

Patty Dann (born October 30, 1953) is an American novelist and nonfiction writer, perhaps best known for Mermaids, a coming-of-age novel about a teenage girl which was published in 1986. In 1990, it was made into a movie starring Cher, Winona Ryder, Bob Hoskins and Christina Ricci. Dann has written one other novel, "Sweet & Crazy" (2003), about a 39-year-old woman who lives with her young son in a small town in Ohio, as the events of September 11, 2001 impacted their lives. She is also the author of two memoirs, Baby Boat: A Memoir of Adoption (1998) about the adoption of her son, and The Goldfish Went on Vacation: A Memoir of Loss (and Learning to Tell the Truth About it) (2007) about the death of her husband from brain cancer, which...