This show originally aired Sept. 30, 2019. Tom’s guest is the acclaimed writer Ann Patchett. She is the winner of the Pen Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for fiction, and her work has been translated into more than 30 languages. Patchett is the author of eight novels. The latest is The Dutch House. As with her other immensely popular books -- novels such as Commonwealth, State of Wonder and Bel Canto -- in The Dutch House, Patchett writes with grace, authority and compassion.