Anne Fadiman
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Fadiman in September 2010
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| Born |
August 7, 1953 New York City, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Occupation | Essayist, reporter, and teacher |
| Employer | Yale University |
| Spouse(s) | George Howe Colt |
| Children | Two |
| Parent(s) | Clifton Fadiman, Annalee Jacoby Fadiman |
| Awards | National Book Critics Circle Award (1997) |
Anne Fadiman (born August 7, 1953 New York) is an American essayist and reporter.
Her interests include literary journalism, essays, memoir, and autobiography.
She is the daughter of the renowned literary, radio, and television personality Clifton Fadiman and World War II correspondent and author Annalee Jacoby Fadiman. She attended Harvard University, graduating in 1975 from Radcliffe College with a bachelor of arts degree. At Harvard, she roomed with Wendy Lesser (Benazir Bhutto and Kathleen Kennedy were also in the same dorm).
Fadiman's 1997 book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures won the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award as well as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award. Researched in a small county hospital in California, it examined a Hmong family from Laos with a child with epilepsy, and their cultural, linguistic, and medical struggles with the American medical system.
She has authored two books of essays, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (1998) and At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays (2007), a collection of essays on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, postal history, and ice cream, among other topics; it was the source of an unencrypted quotation in the New York Times Sunday Acrostic. She also edited Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love (2005) and the Best American Essays 2003 (2003).
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