Anna Quindlen
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| Born | July 8, 1952 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Residence | Manhattan, New York |
| Occupation | Columnist, Novelist |
| Spouse(s) | Gerald Krovatin |
Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, 1952) is an American author, journalist, and opinion columnist whose New York Times column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. She began her journalism career in 1974 as a reporter for the New York Post. Between 1977 and 1994 she held several posts at The New York Times.[1]
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Life and career [edit]
Quindlen left journalism in 1995 to become a full-time novelist. In 1999, she joined Newsweek, writing a bi-weekly column until announcing her semi-retirement in the May 18, 2009 issue of the magazine. Quindlen is known as a critic of what she perceives to be the fast-paced and increasingly materialistic nature of modern American life. Much of her personal writing centers on her mother who died at the age of 40 from ovarian cancer, when Quindlen was 19 years old.
She has written five best-selling novels, three of which have been made into movies. One True Thing was made into a feature film in 1998 for which Meryl Streep received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Black and Blue and Blessings were made into television movies in 1999 and 2003 respectively.[1]
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to an Irish father and an Italian mother, Quindlen graduated in 1970 from South Brunswick High School in South Brunswick, New Jersey.[2]
Quindlen graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University in 1974; she now serves on its Board of Trustees. She is also on the Council of the Authors Guild and the Board of St. Luke's School in New York. Quindlen is married to Gerald Krovatin, an attorney; they have three children. She lives with her family in New York City.[1]
Criticism [edit]
Writing in The New Republic, critic Lee Siegel cited Quindlen as an example of the "monsters of empathy" who "self subjugate and domesticate and assimilate every distant tragedy." He coined the term "The Quindlen Effect" to describe this phenomenon and suggested that it began with her Times column of December 13, 1992, in which Quindlen assailed the four alleged perpetrators of the Glen Ridge rape. "True to her niche," Siegel wrote, "Quindlen attacked with scathing indignation actions that no sane Times reader would ever defend."[3]
Works [edit]
Nonfiction [edit]
- Living Out Loud (1988)
- Thinking Out Loud (1994)
- How Reading Changed My Life (1998)
- Homeless (1998)
- A Short Guide to a Happy Life(2000) ISBN 978-0-375-50461-7 from part of a cancelled commencement address that was to be given at Villanova
- Loud and Clear (2004)
- Imagined London (2004)
- Being Perfect (2005)
- Good Dog. Stay. (2007)
- Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake (2012)[4]
Novels [edit]
- Object Lessons (1991)
- One True Thing (1994)
- Black and Blue (1998)
- Blessings (2002)
- Rise and Shine (2006)
- Every Last One: A Novel (2010)
Children's books [edit]
- The Tree That Came To Stay (Illustrated by Nancy Carpenter) (1992)
- Happily Ever After (Illustrated by James Stevenson) (1997)
New table pictorials [edit]
- Naked Babies (Photographs by Nick Kelsh) (1996)
- Siblings (Photographs by Nick Kelsh) (1998)
Speeches [edit]
- 1999 commencement speech, Mount Holyoke College
- 2000 commencement speech, Villanova University
- 2002 commencement speech, Sarah Lawrence College
- 2006 commencement speech, Colby College
- 2008 commencement speech, Kenyon College
- 2009 commencement speech, Wesleyan University
- 2011 commencement speech, Grinnell College
Awards [edit]
Industry Awards [edit]
- 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
- 2001 Mothers At Home Media Award
- 2001 Clarion Award for Best Regular Opinion Column in a magazine
- 2002 Clarion Award for Best Opinion Column from the Association for Women in Communications
Honorary Degrees [edit]
- Dartmouth College
- Denison University
- Grinnell College, May 2011
- Kenyon College, May 2008
- Moravian College
- Mount Holyoke College
- Smith College
- Stevens Institute of Technology
- Nantucket High School
- Penn State
- Villanova University
- Wesleyan University[1]
Other Awards from Universities [edit]
- University Medal of Excellence from Columbia
- Poynter Fellow in Journalism at Yale
- Victoria Fellow in Contemporary Issues at Rutgers
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Honorary Doctorate from The Pennsylvania State University (Aug.18 2007)
Other Awards [edit]
- 2006 Amelia Earhart Award from Crittenton Women's Union
References [edit]
- ^ a b c "Authors - Anna Quindlen". Newsweek (newsweek.com). Retrieved February 18, 2011.
- ^ Kalet, Hank. "From South Brunswick High School to a Pulitzer Prize: Nationally renowned writer, journalist has local roots", South Brunswick Post, June 21, 2001. Accessed July 9, 2007. "Anna Quindlen has a busy schedule. The 1970 South Brunswick High School graduate writes a regular column for Newsweek, is raising three kids in New York City and makes the rounds of the talk show circuit to promote her various writing projects."
- ^ http://www.tnr.com/print/article/books-and-arts/sweet-and-low
- ^ New York Journal of Books
External links [edit]
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- Anna Quindlen at Random House
- Anna Quindlen at the Internet Movie Database
- Anna Quindlen's columns for Newsweek
- Anna Quindlen talks about her novel Rise and Shine video
- Booknotes interview with Quindlen on Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private, May 16, 1993.
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- 1952 births
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- American children's writers
- American columnists
- American women novelists
- Barnard College alumni
- Wesleyan University people
- American people of Irish descent
- American writers of Italian descent
- Living people
- Newsweek people
- People from Manhattan
- People from South Brunswick, New Jersey
- Pulitzer Prize for Commentary winners
- Women writers from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- The New York Times columnists
- Writers from New York City
- Women writers from New York
