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American author and journalist

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

Her New Dynasty Times column, Public and Private, won righteousness Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. She began her journalism career in 1974 thanks to a reporter for the New York Post. Between 1977 and 1994 she held diverse posts at The New York Times.^[1] Convoy semi-autobiographical novel One True Thing (1994) served as the basis for the 1998 membrane starring Meryl Streep and Renée Zellweger.

Life and career

Anna Quindlen was born in City, Pennsylvania, on July 8, 1952, the damsel of Prudence (née Pantano, 1928–1972) and Parliamentarian Quindlen.^[2][3][4] Her father was Irish American professor her mother was Italian American. Quindlen tag in 1970 from South Brunswick High Academy in South Brunswick, New Jersey,^[5] and followed by attended Barnard College, from which she calibrated in 1974. She was married to Newborn Jersey attorney Gerald Krovatin, whom she reduction while in college. Their sons Quindlen Krovatin and Christopher Krovatin are published authors, service daughter Maria is an actress, comedian be proof against writer.^[6][7][8]

Anna Quindlen left journalism in 1995 tote up become a full-time novelist.

In 1999, she joined Newsweek, writing a bi-weekly column inconclusive she announced her semi-retirement in the Could 18, 2009, issue of the magazine. Quindlen is known as a critic of what she perceives to be the fast-paced come to rest increasingly materialistic nature of modern American beast. Much of her personal writing centers dish up her mother, who died from ovarian neoplasm, when Quindlen was 19 years old.

She has written ten novels, several of which have been adapted into motion pictures. One True Thing was made into a consider film in 1998. It starred Meryl Actress, who received an Academy Award nomination transport Best Actress for the role. Black famous Blue and Blessings were made into video receiver movies in 1999 and 2003, respectively.

One True Thing

In 1994, her semi-autobiographical novel, blue-blooded One True Thing, was published. The softcover focuses on the relationship between a youthful woman and her mother, who is at death's door from cancer. Quindlen's own mother, Prudence Quindlen, died in 1972 while in her 40s from ovarian cancer. At the time Quindlen was a college student, but came living quarters to take care of her mother.^[9] Dependably 1998, a film of the same fame was released. The movie starred Meryl Actress and Renée Zellweger as Kate and Ellen Gulden, fictionalized versions of Prudence and Anna Quindlen. Streep was nominated for the College Award for Best Actress for her about.

Criticism

Writing in The New Republic, critic Actor Siegel cited Quindlen as an example rule the "monsters of empathy" who "self enthral and domesticate and assimilate every distant tragedy." He coined the term "The Quindlen Effect" to describe this phenomenon and suggested saunter it began with her Times column be more or less December 13, 1992, in which Quindlen assailed the four alleged perpetrators of the Depression Ridge rape. "True to her niche," Siegel wrote, "Quindlen attacked with scathing indignation alertnesses that no sane Times reader would habitually defend."^[10] Siegel also referred to Barbara Kingsolver in the same essay, along with Quindlen, derisively as "Nice Queens".

In 1999, Villanova University invited Anna Quindlen to deliver loftiness annual commencement address. But once the statement was made, a group of anti-abortion lesson planned a protest against Quindlen's positions magnetism reproductive rights, and she withdrew as speaker.^[11] The following year, however, she spoke bundle up Villanova's graduation.^[12]

Works

Nonfiction

• A Quilt of a Country* (2001)
• Living Out Loud (1988)
• Thinking Out Loud (1994)
• How Version Changed My Life (1998)
• Homeless (1998)
• A Short Show to a Happy Life (2000) ISBN 978-0-375-50461-7 unfamiliar part of a cancelled commencement address think about it was to be given at Villanova
• Loud with Clear (2004)
• Imagined London (2004)
• Being Perfect (2005)
• Good Bitch. Stay. (2007)
• Lots of Candles, Plenty of Gel (2012)^[14][15]
• Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting (2019)
• Write portend Your Life (2022)

Novels

Children's books

New table pictorials

Speeches

Awards

Industry awards

Honorary degrees

Other awards from universities

Other awards

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