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Anna Quindlen
American author and journalist
Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, 1952) is an American author, journalist, and opinion columnist.
Her New York Times column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. Quindlen 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] Her semi-autobiographical novel One True Thing (1994) served as the basis for the 1998 film starring Meryl Streep and Renée Zellweger.
Life and career
Anna Quindlen was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 8, 1952, the daughter of Prudence (née Pantano, 1928–1972) and Robert Quindlen.[2][3][4] Her father was Irish American and her mother was Italian American. Quindlen graduated in 1970 from South Brunswick High School in South Brunswick, New Jersey,[5] and then attended Barnard College, from which she graduated in 1974. She was married to New Jersey attorney Gerald Krovatin, whom she met while in college. Their so
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Anna Quindlen Wants You to Get a Good Life
For Anna Quindlen, writing is part inspiration, part procrastination—a lot of procrastination. “I wake up early most mornings, when it’s still dark, then I go through my various rituals of not writing,” the author says via Zoom from her apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. “I walk for an hour, which is a sad reflection that I’d rather do aerobic exercise than write. I fold laundry, talk to my bestie on the phone, read newspapers, unload the dishwasher. I have a whole raft of domestic rituals that I’ll do until finally I run out of stuff and sit down to write. I sit down every time thinking that nothing good will come of this, and the only reason I keep doing it—other than the fact that it’s not what I do, it’s who I am—is because every once in a while something good does come.”
Quindlen’s career spans nine novels, 10 works of nonfiction, and two children’s books, which together have sold nearly 13 million cop
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©2002 Karen Cipolla
Anna Quindlen (1953- )
Journalist and Author
Barnard College 1974
BC Trustee 1989-2000, 2001- (Chair 2003- )
A Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and best-selling author, Anna Quindlen gained renown for commentary that examined feminism, motherhood, and family life in the context of American and world society; her fiction has drawn praise for offering social and political insights against a backdrop of believable characters. She began her career as a reporter at the New York Post before moving to the New York Times, rising through the latter's ranks to become deputy metropolitan editor but leaving the management track to raise her first child. After writing a popular feature column from home, in 1990 she became the third woman ever to receive a regular slot on the Times's Op-Ed page. She would win the 1992 Pulitzer for commentary for her work there, and a collection of her columns became a national bests
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