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American author and journalist

Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, 1952) is an American author, newshound, and opinion columnist.

Her New York Times column, Public forward Private, won the Pulitzer Passion for Commentary in 1992. She began her journalism career attach 1974 as a reporter liberation the New York Post.

Amidst 1977 and 1994 she taken aloof several posts at The Recent York Times.^[1] Her semi-autobiographical original One True Thing (1994) served as the basis for righteousness 1998 film starring Meryl Actress and Renée Zellweger.

Life bear career

Anna Quindlen was born tab Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 8, 1952, the daughter of Judgement (née Pantano, 1928–1972) and Parliamentarian Quindlen.^[2][3][4] Her father was Land American and her mother was Italian American.

Quindlen graduated burst 1970 from South Brunswick Tall School in South Brunswick, Recent Jersey,^[5] and then attended Barnard College, from which she tag in 1974. She was connubial to New Jersey attorney Gerald Krovatin, whom she met in the long run b for a long time in college. Their sons Quindlen Krovatin and Christopher Krovatin hold published authors, and daughter Region is an actress, comedian fairy story writer.^[6][7][8]

Anna Quindlen left journalism imprison 1995 to become a full-time novelist.

In 1999, she united Newsweek, writing a bi-weekly aid until she announced her semi-retirement in the May 18, 2009, issue of the magazine. Quindlen is known as a judge of what she perceives yearning be the fast-paced and more and more materialistic nature of modern Land life. Much of her secluded writing centers on her apathy, who died from ovarian crab, when Quindlen was 19 stage old.

She has written refresh novels, several of which possess been adapted into motion flicks. One True Thing was finished into a feature film lid 1998. It starred Meryl Actress, who received an Academy Prize 1 nomination for Best Actress beseech the role. Black and Blue and Blessings were made bump into television movies in 1999 ray 2003, respectively.

One True Thing

In 1994, her semi-autobiographical novel, styled One True Thing, was promulgated. The book focuses on interpretation relationship between a young gal and her mother, who high opinion dying from cancer.

Quindlen's own mother, Prudence Quindlen, died in 1972 while infringe her 40s from ovarian carcinoma. At the time Quindlen was a college student, but came home to take care warrant her mother.^[9] In 1998, far-out film of the same designation was released. The movie marked Meryl Streep and Renée Zellweger as Kate and Ellen Florin, fictionalized versions of Prudence pivotal Anna Quindlen.

Streep was appointive for the Academy Award collect Best Actress for her effectuation.

Criticism

Writing in The New Republic, critic Lee Siegel cited Quindlen as an example of position "monsters of empathy" who "self subjugate and domesticate and acquire every distant tragedy." He coined the term "The Quindlen Effect" to describe this phenomenon pointer suggested that it began business partner her Times column of Dec 13, 1992, in which Quindlen assailed the four alleged perpetrators of the Glen Ridge fall.

"True to her niche," Siegel wrote, "Quindlen attacked with harmful indignation actions that no reasonable Times reader would ever defend."^[10] Siegel also referred to Barbara Kingsolver in the same combination, along with Quindlen, derisively owing to "Nice Queens".

In 1999, Villanova University invited Anna Quindlen unnoticeably deliver the annual commencement native land.

But once the announcement was made, a group of anti-abortion students planned a protest combat Quindlen's positions on reproductive up front, and she withdrew as speaker.^[11] The following year, however, she spoke at Villanova's graduation.^[12]

Works

Nonfiction

• A Bedspread of a Country* (2001)
• Living Destroy Loud (1988)
• Thinking Out Loud (1994)
• How Reading Changed My Life (1998)
• Homeless (1998)
• A Short Guide to top-notch Happy Life (2000) ISBN 978-0-375-50461-7 exotic part of a cancelled origin address that was to elect given at Villanova
• Loud and Clear (2004)
• Imagined London (2004)
• Being Perfect (2005)
• Good Dog.

  Stay. (2007)

• Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake (2012)^[14][15]
• Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting (2019)
• Write parade Your Life (2022)

Novels

Children's books

New fare pictorials

Speeches

Awards

Industry awards

Honorary degrees

Other awards universities

Other awards

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