Anna Quindlen
When you think great American author, many people think of Anna Quindlen. She won many awards. They include but are not limited to a Pulitzer and two Clarion Awards. She is an older sister and a daughter, as well as a wife and mother. Anna Quindlen has published many, many literary works, including novels, children’s books, nonfiction works, columns, and new table pictorials. This woman is not only an author, but she is a role model and hero to some, having accomplished her dreams with great dignity and grace.
Anna Quindlen was not always Anna Quindlen the famous author. First, she was Anna Marie Quindlen, the oldest of five children in Philadelphia, and later on, New Jersey. She has one sister and three brothers, all of which are younger than she is, her sister being the youngest of the five. When Anna was nineteen, her mother, an italian woman, died of ovarian cancer at age fourty. She uses that experience in much of her writing, such as “A Short Guide to a Happy Life.” This left her with only her father, and Irish man, as most of the characters in her books such as “Object Lessons’ are. Since she was a teenager, Anna Quindlen has been a feminist, and although her reasoning has changed quite a bit, she still remains one. Anna currently is married to a man named Gerald Krovatin and has three children. They all live in New York City.
This incredible woman has written and published four best-selling novels. They are “Object Lessons,” “One True Thing,” “Black and Blue,” and “Blessings.” “Black and Blue’ was made into a movie as well as “One True Thing”. Anna also has three collection of her colums published. They consist of “Living Out Loud,” “Thinking Out Loud,” and “Loud and Clear.” She also wrote about her own personal experiences in “A Short Guide to a Happy Life, “Being Perfect,” and “Imagined London.” “Being Perfect” is a national bestseller as well as “A Short Guide to a Happy Life.” She was a columnist for the New York Times from 1981 to 1994, and 1990
Anna Quindlen was not always Anna Quindlen the famous author. First, she was Anna Marie Quindlen, the oldest of five children in Philadelphia, and later on, New Jersey. She has one sister and three brothers, all of which are younger than she is, her sister being the youngest of the five. When Anna was nineteen, her mother, an italian woman, died of ovarian cancer at age fourty. She uses that experience in much of her writing, such as “A Short Guide to a Happy Life.” This left her with only her father, and Irish man, as most of the characters in her books such as “Object Lessons’ are. Since she was a teenager, Anna Quindlen has been a feminist, and although her reasoning has changed quite a bit, she still remains one. Anna currently is married to a man named Gerald Krovatin and has three children. They all live in New York City.
This incredible woman has written and published four best-selling novels. They are “Object Lessons,” “One True Thing,” “Black and Blue,” and “Blessings.” “Black and Blue’ was made into a movie as well as “One True Thing”. Anna also has three collection of her colums published. They consist of “Living Out Loud,” “Thinking Out Loud,” and “Loud and Clear.” She also wrote about her own personal experiences in “A Short Guide to a Happy Life, “Being Perfect,” and “Imagined London.” “Being Perfect” is a national bestseller as well as “A Short Guide to a Happy Life.” She was a columnist for the New York Times from 1981 to 1994, and 1990