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  <name><![CDATA[Anne Fadiman]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[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 [book:The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down]. [book: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. Fadiman was the editor of the intellectual and cultural quarterly &lt;I&gt;The American Scholar&lt;/I&gt; from 1997 to 2004. She now holds the Francis chair in nonfiction writing at Yale. Fadiman lives in western Massachusetts with her husband, the writer [author:George Howe Colt], and their two children.]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>New York, New York</hometown>  <born_at>08/07/1953</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Lexus and the Olive Tree]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Best American Essays 2003]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Robert Atwan]]></name>
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