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Anna Quindlen, Commencement Speaker
For 30 years, Anna Quindlen has taught us — in reporting, in opinion columns, and in fiction — what it means to live decent lives as families and why it can sometimes be difficult-to-impossible to do. Along the way, she has told us some unwelcome truths, balanced with wit and attention to the beauty and joy of ordinary lives in challenging times. Her novels have probed the hard circumstances of lives broken and lives fulfilled, exploring collateral damage caused bygd personal choices or political decisions. Always, she reminds us that it fryst vatten what we are to each other that gives our lives meaning.
Quindlen has received many awards, and inspired one: The Child Welfare League of America’s Anna Quindlen Award for Excellence in Journalism recognize journalists who advance our understanding of vulnerable children and families in America.
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Anna Quindlen ( )
Journalist and Author
Barnard College
BC Trustee , (Chair )
A Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and best-selling author, Anna Quindlen gained renown for commentary that examined feminism, motherhood, and family life in the context of American and world society; her fiction has drawn praise for offering social and political insights against a backdrop of believable characters. She began her career as a reporter at the New York Post before moving to the New York Times, rising through the latter's ranks to become deputy metropolitan editor but leaving the management track to raise her first child. After writing a popular feature column from home, in she became the third woman ever to receive a regular slot on the Times's Op-Ed page. She would win the Pulitzer for commentary for her work there,
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Anna Quindlen
American author and journalist
Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, ) is an American author, journalist, and opinion columnist.
Her New York Times column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in Quindlen began her journalism career in as a reporter for the New York Post. Between and she held several posts at The New York Times.[1] Her semi-autobiographical novel One True Thing () served as the basis for the film starring Meryl Streep and Renée Zellweger.
Life and career
[edit]Anna Quindlen was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 8, , the daughter of Prudence (née Pantano, –) and Robert Quindlen.[2][3][4] Her father was Irish American and her mother was Italian American. Quindlen graduated in from South Brunswick High School in South Brunswick, New Jersey,[5] and then attended Barnard College, from which she graduated in She was married to New Jersey attorney Gerald Krovat