1. Anna Quindlen
Linh Tran

2. 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

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

4. 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.

5. 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)

6. 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

7. 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.”