Anne Fadiman






Anne Fadiman

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August 07, 1953

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New York, New York, The United States

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Nonfiction


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Anne Fadiman, the daughter of Annalee Whitmore Jacoby Fadiman, a screenwriter and foreign correspondent, and Clifton Fadiman, an essayist and critic, was born in New York City in 1953. She graduated in 1975 from Harvard College, where she began her writing career as the undergraduate columnist at Harvard Magazine. For many years, she was a writer and columnist for Life, and later an Editor-at-Large at Civilization. She has won National Magazine Awards for both Reporting (1987) and Essays (2003), as well as a National Book Critics Circle Award for The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, a collection of first-person essays on books and reading, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1998. F...more




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The Spirit Catches You and You... The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
by Anne Fadiman
avg rating 4.14 — 7,814 ratings — published 1997
7 editions
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Lexus and the Olive Tree Lexus and the Olive Tree
by Thomas L. Friedman, Anne Fadiman
avg rating 3.46 — 26 ratings — published 1997
20 editions
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Co... Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
by Anne Fadiman
avg rating 4.23 — 1,557 ratings — published 1998
9 editions
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At Large and At Small: Familia... At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays
by Anne Fadiman
avg rating 4.09 — 351 ratings — published 2007
4 editions
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Rereadings: Seventeen Writers... Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love
by Anne Fadiman
avg rating 3.56 — 117 ratings — published 2005
2 editions
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The Best American Essays 2003 The Best American Essays 2003
by Anne Fadiman (Editor), Robert Atwan (Series Editor)
avg rating 3.80 — 66 ratings — published 2003
3 editions
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"My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children do not see their parents reading, as I did every day of my childhood. By contrast, when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says 'PRIVATE--GROWNUPS KEEP OUT': a child sprawled on the bed, reading."
Anne Fadiman (Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader)
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"If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs."
Anne Fadiman
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"I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them."
Anne Fadiman (Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader)
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