Anna Quindlen

Anna Quindlen
Born (1952-07-08) July 8, 1952
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Residence Manhattan, New York
Occupation Columnist, novelist
Spouse(s) Gerald Krovatin

Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, 1952)[1][2] is an American author, journalist, and opinion columnist.

Her 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 for the New York Post. Between 1977 and 1994 she held several posts at The New York Times.[3]Her semi-autobiographical novel One True Thing (1994) was made into a film in 1998, starring Meryl Streep and Renée Zellweger.

Life and career

She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Prudence (née Pantano 1928-1972) and Robert Quindlen.[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 is married to prominent New Jersey attorney Gerald Krovatin whom she met while in college. Their sons Quindlen Krovatin and Christopher Krovatin are both published authors, and daughter Maria is an actress/comedian/writer.[6][7][8]

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

In 1999, she joined Newsweek, writing a bi-weekly column until announcing her semi-retirement in the May 18, 2009 issue of the magazine. Quindlen 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 Quindlen was 19 years old.

She has written five novels, two 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 for Best Actress. Black and Blue and Blessings were made into television movies in 1999 and 2003 respectively.

Quindlen participates in LearnedLeague under the name "QuindlenA".[9]

One True Thing

In 1994, her semi-autobiographical novel was published titled One True Thing. The book reflects's on a family that is dealing with the cancer of the mother, focusing on the relationship between the daughter and mother in her final weeks. In real life, Quindlen's mother, Prudence Quindlen, died in 1972 while in her 40s from ovarian cancer. At the time Quindlen was a college student, but would come home to take care of her mother. In 1998, a film of the same name was released. The movie stars Meryl Streep and Renée Zellweger as Kate and Ellen Gulden, a fictional version of Anna and Prudence Quindlen. Streep was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance.[10]

Criticism

Writing in The New Republic, critic Lee Siegel cited Quindlen as an example of the "monsters of empathy" who "self subjugate and domesticate and assimilate every distant tragedy." He coined the term "The Quindlen Effect" to describe this phenomenon and suggested that it began with her Times column of December 13, 1992, in which Quindlen assailed the four alleged perpetrators of the Glen Ridge rape. "True to her niche," Siegel wrote, "Quindlen attacked with scathing indignation actions that no sane Times reader would ever defend."[11]

In 1999, Villanova University invited Anna Quindlen to deliver the annual commencement address. But once the announcement was made, a group of pro-life students planned a protest against Quindlen’s positions on reproductive rights and she withdrew as speaker.[12] The following year, however, she spoke at Villanova's graduation.[13]

Works

Nonfiction

Novels

Children's books

New table pictorials

Speeches

Awards

Industry awards

Honorary degrees

Other awards from universities

Other awards

References

  1. ↑ "Anna Quindlen – Historical Records". MyHeritage.
  2. ↑ Krovatin, Quindlen (May 11, 2012). "Anna Quindlen talks about her new memoir 'Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake'". Christian Science Monitor. I'd done the research that showed that in the year I was born, 1952, average life expectancy was 68.
  3. ↑ "Authors: Anna Quindlen". Newsweek. Archived from the original on January 20, 2011.
  4. ↑ Who's Who's Pulitzer Winnersaccessed 10/26/2016
  5. ↑ Kalet, Hank (June 21, 2001). "From South Brunswick High School to a Pulitzer Prize: Nationally renowned writer, journalist has local roots". South Brunswick Post. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007.
  6. ↑ Staff (June 15, 2014). "Weddings/Celebrations: Lynn Feng and Quindlen Krovatin". The New York Times.
  7. ↑ Neyfakh, Leon (July 7, 2009). "Chris Krovatin, Anna Quindlen's Metalhead Son, Sells Novel to Broadway". The New York Observer. Archived from the original on October 11, 2012.
  8. ↑ Lane, Tahree (May 5, 2013). "On The Beauty of Aging, Quindlen: 'It can be so glorious'". The Blade (Toledo).
  9. ↑ http://learnedleague.com/profiles.php?quindlena
  10. ↑ Her Own True Thingaccesssed 10/29/2016
  11. ↑ http://www.newrepublic.com/article/books-and-arts/sweet-and-low
  12. ↑ Eshleman, Russell E., Jr. (May 11, 1999). "Anna Quindlen Withdraws As Villanova Graduation Speaker". Philadelphia Inquirer.
  13. ↑ http://www.cs.oswego.edu/~wender/quindlen.html
  14. ↑ New York Journal of Books
  15. ↑ http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/03/25/quindlen-p07-premji-p99-masselli-alexander-88-to-receive-honorary-degrees/

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