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Anne Fadiman

Born

in New York, New York, The United States

August 07, 1953

Website

http://www.spiritcatchesyou.com

Genre

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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. Fa ...more

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Average rating: 4.16 · 97,349 ratings · 8,189 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures 4.19 avg rating — 78,451 ratings — published 1997 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan, Anne Fadiman (Introduction) 3.84 avg rating — 48,779 ratings — published 2014 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader 4.11 avg rating — 12,668 ratings — published 1998 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays 4.12 avg rating — 2,151 ratings — published 2007 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love 3.71 avg rating — 946 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wine Lover's Daughter: A Memoir 3.96 avg rating — 726 ratings — published 2017 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Essays 2003 by Anne Fadiman (Editor), Robert Atwan (Series Editor) 3.95 avg rating — 220 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology by Randy-Michael Testa (Editor), Robert Coles (Editor), Penny Armstrong 4.01 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where Books Fall Open: A Reader's Anthology of Wit & Passion by Bascove (Editor), Italo Calvino (Contributor), Umberto Eco (Contributor) 3.87 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Der Geist packt dich, und du stuerzt zu Boden Ein Hmong-Kind, seine westlichen Ã„rzte und der Zusammenprall zweier Kulturen 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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

tags: bibliophile, bibliophiles, books, reader, reading

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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

tags: books, child, children, parents, reading

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“I have never been able to resist a book about books.”
― Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

tags: book, books, reading

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Strasznie głośno, niesamowicie blisko | Jonathan Safran Foer

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Ex libris. Wyznania czytelnika | Anne Fadiman

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W ogóle i w szczególe. Eseje poufałe | Anne Fadiman

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