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Biography Copy girl at age 18 Gerald Krovatin Christopher and Maria Krovatin New York City Joined the Times in 1977 Columnist at The New York Times from 1981 to 1994 In 1995, became novelist full time

Schooling Dartmouth College Denison University Moravian College Mount Holyoke College Smith College Stevens Institute of Technology Bates College Southern Connecticut State University Barnard College

Highlights The Times paper deputy metropolitan editor in 1983 Wrote the “About New York” column from 1981 to 1983 and created the column, “Life in the 30’s” in 1985. Became only the third woman in The New York Times history to write a regular column for its influential Op-Ed page In 1992 won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.

Books Published Object Lessons (1991) One True Thing (1994) Black and Blue (1998) How Reading Changed My Life (1998) A Short Guide To A Happy Life (2000) Blessings (2002) The Tree That Came to Stay (1992) Happily Ever After (1997)

Achievements University Medal of Excellence by Columbia Poynter Fellow in Journalism at Yale Victoria Fellow in Contemporary Issues at Rutgers Elected a Fellow of the Academy of Arts & Sciences Glamour magazine named her one of its 10 Outstanding Women of the Year in 1991 Elected Chair of Barnard's Board of Trustees A member of the Council of the Author’s Guild A member of the Board at the Nightingale-Bamford School On the Board of NARAL Foundation A member of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America Board of Advocates

Snippets “So why is raising kids the most important job we ignore from a preparation point of view? Oh, there are more parenting classes and books than in the days when tutelage was mainly your mother saying, "You'll spoil that child if you pick him up every time he cries." A few high schools give their students a baby doll to carry around and tend, but that seems largely an attempt at libido suppression.”