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Anna Quindlen

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born
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The United States
July 08, 1952

gender
female

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genre
Literature & Fiction, Memoir


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Anna Quindlen 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 bi-weekly column for Newsweek and is a critic of the fast-paced and increasingly materialistic nature of modern American life.


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Average rating: 4.18 · 1,036,683 ratings · 31,961 reviews · 51 distinct works · Similar authors
Black and Blue
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 34,880 ratings — published 1998 — 32 editions
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One True Thing
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 16,307 ratings — published 1994 — 33 editions
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Every Last One
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 15,935 ratings — published 2010 — 14 editions
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Blessings
3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 7,652 ratings — published 2002 — 29 editions
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Lots of Candles, Plenty of ...
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 5,855 ratings — published 2012 — 15 editions
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Rise and Shine
3.2 of 5 stars 3.20 avg rating — 6,501 ratings — published 2006 — 26 editions
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Object Lessons
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 3,056 ratings — published 1991 — 15 editions
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A Short Guide to a Happy Life
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 2,745 ratings — published 2000 — 12 editions
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Good Dog. Stay.
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 1,779 ratings — published 2007 — 13 editions
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How Reading Changed My Life
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 1,411 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions
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"There are a million moving parts to raising kids, and you can't always anticipate them all...and sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that." ...More

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“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
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“I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”
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“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”
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