Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen | |
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| Born | July 8, 1952 |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, Novelist |
| Spouse | Gerald Krovatin |
Anna Marie Quindlen (b. 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 with The New York Post. Between 1977 and 1994 she held several posts at The New York Times.
She left journalism in 1995 to become a full-time novelist. She currently writes a bi-weekly column for Newsweek and 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 Anna 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 as best actress. Black and Blue and Blessings were made into television movies in 1999 and 2003 respectively.
Born in Philadelphia to an Irish father and an Italian mother, Quindlen graduated in 1970 from South Brunswick High School in South Brunswick, New Jersey.[1]
Quindlen graduated from Barnard College in New York City in 1974; she now serves on its Board of Trustees. She is also on the Council of the Author's Guild and the Board of St. Luke's School in New York. She is married and the mother of three children. She lives with her family in New York City.
Family
Married to Gerald Krovatin, an attorney; they have three children, Christopher, Maria and Quindlen ("Quin").
Works
Nonfiction
- Living Out Loud (1988)
- Thinking Out Loud (1994)
- How Reading Changed My Life (1998)
- A Short Guide to a Happy Life (2000)
- Loud and Clear (2004)
- Imagined London (2004)
- Being Perfect (2005)
- Good Dog. Stay. (2007)
Homeless (1998)
Novels
- Object Lessons (1991)
- One True Thing (1997)
- Black and Blue (1998)
- Blessings (2002)
- Rise and Shine (2006)
Children's books
- The Tree That Came To Stay (Illustrated by Nancy Carpenter) (1992)
- Happily Ever After (Illustrated by James Stevenson) (1997)
Coffee table pictorials
- Naked Babies (Photographs by Nick Kelsh) (1996)
- Siblings (Photographs by Nick Kelsh) (1998)
Speeches
- 1999 commencement speech, Mount Holyoke College
- 2006 commencement speech, Colby College
- 2008 commencement speech, [Kenyon College]
Awards
Industry Awards
- 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
- Dartmouth College
- Denison University
- Kenyon College, May 2008
- Moravian College
- Mount Holyoke College
- Smith College
- Stevens Institute of Technology
- Nantucket High School
- Penn State
Other Awards from Universities
- University Medal of Excellence from Columbia
- Poynter Fellow in Journalism at Yale
- Victoria Fellow in Contemporary Issues at Rutgers
- Fellow of the Academy of Arts & Sciences
- Honorary Doctorate from The Pennsylvania State University (Aug.18 2007)
Other Awards
- 2006 Amelia Earhart Award from Crittenton Women's Union
References
- ^ 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."
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