Anna Quindlen
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Anna Quindlen (Born July 20, 1953) is an American 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 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.
She has written four best-selling novels, two of which have been made into movies.
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she is a 1974 graduate of Barnard College in New York City. She has also served as a Barnard trustee since 1983.
Works
Nonfiction books
- Living Out Loud (1994)
- Thinking Out Loud (1994)
- How Reading Changed My Life (1998)
- Turning Stones (1998)
- A Short Guide to a Happy Life (2000)
Fiction books
- Object Lessons (1997)
- One True Thing (1997)
- Black and Blue (1998)
- Blessings (2003)
- Loud and Clear (2004)
Children's books
- The Tree That Came To Stay
- Happily Ever After
Coffee Table Pictorials
- Naked Babies
- Siblings
Speeches
Awards
Industry Awards
- 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
- 2001 Mothers At Home Media Award
- 2001 Clarion Award for Best Regular Opinion Colum in a magazine
- 2002 Clarion Award for Best Opinion Column from the Association for Women in Communications
Honorary Degrees
- Dartmouth College
- Denison University
- Moravian College
- Mount Holyoke College
- Smith College
- Stevens Institute of Technology
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
External links
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