Anna Quindlen

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Anna Quindlen (Born July 20, 1953) is an American journalist and opinion columnist whose New York Times column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. She currently writes for Newsweek, where her column appears every other week. She is known as a critic of what she perceives to be the fast-paced and increasingly materialistic nature of modern American life. Her first writing was for the New York Post in 1974. Two of her books have been made into movies.

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she is a 1974 graduate of Barnard College in New York City. She has also served as a Barnard trustee since 1983. Quindlen received an L.H.D. from Bates College in 2001.

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