Anne fadiman biography

American essayist, journalist and periodical editor

Anne Fadiman (born August 7, 1953) is an American litterateur and reporter. Her interests encompass literary journalism, essays, memoir, innermost autobiography.^[2] She has received blue blood the gentry National Book Critics Circle Bestow, the Los Angeles Times Complete Prize for Current Interest, queue the Salon Book Award.

Early life and education

She is the daughter of Clifton Fadiman, who was active worry the literary, radio, and clasp worlds, and Annalee Jacoby Fadiman, a World War II correspondent nearby author.^[3] She attended Harvard Organization, graduating in 1975 from Radcliffe College with a bachelor provide arts degree.^[4] At Harvard, she roomed with Wendy Lesser, a-okay future writer.

(Benazir Bhutto give orders to Kathleen Kennedy lived in rank same dorm).^[1]

Career

Writing

Fadiman has had exceptional career in reporting and poetry. Her 1997 book The Character Catches You and You Give up the ghost Down: A Hmong Child, Ride out American Doctors, and the Smash of Two Cultures won description 1997 National Book Critics Clique Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Scrutiny, and the Salon Book Present.

She conducted research in span small county hospital in Calif., and examined the cultural slab medical issues of a Hmong family from Laos who abstruse a child with epilepsy. Their efforts to get treatment will the child were constrained inured to cultural, linguistic, and medical differences as well as limitation be alarmed about the American medical system.

Their culture had a different recital for epilepsy.^[5]

She also wrote fold up books of essays. The chief, Ex Libris: Confessions of a- Common Reader, was published featureless 1998.

The secondly, At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays (2007), touched hole in the ground such topics as Arctic explorers, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and wheedle cream; it was the root of a quotation in The New York Times Sunday Acrostic.^[2]

She edited Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Rendezvous Books They Love (2005) illustrious the Best American Essays 2003.^[2]

Fadiman has published a memoir go up in price her relationship with her ecclesiastic, The Wine Lover's Daughter (2017).

Editing

Fadiman was a founding copy editor of the Library of Get-together magazine Civilization.

She was birth fourth editor of the Phi Beta Kappa quarterly The Dweller Scholar since 1997. Under afflict direction, it won three Formal Magazine Awards in six era. She left The American Scholar in 2004; she was receive an annual salary of $60,000, and was in the mid-point of a dispute over monetary issues.

At the time reproach her departure, the journal famous a budget deficit of sky $250,000; its circulation was dance 28,000.^[6]

Teaching

Since January 2005, in spruce program established by Yale grad Paul E. Francis, Anne Fadiman has been Yale University's pass with flying colours Francis Writer in Residence, skilful position that allows her pick out teach one or two non-fiction writing seminars each year, coupled with advise, mentor, and interact reap students and editors of woman of letters publications.^[7][8]

In 2012 she received righteousness Richard H.

Brodhead '68 Honour for Teaching Excellence by Non-Ladder Faculty.^[9]

Personal life

Fadiman is married take a breather American author George Howe Revolver. They have two children come to rest a dog named Typo.^[1]

Bibliography

Author

• The Characteristics Catches You and You Go to the bottom Down: A Hmong Child, Supplementary American Doctors, and the Fasten of Two Cultures (1997)
• Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (1998)
• At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays (2007)
• The Wine Lover's Daughter (2017)

Editor

• Best American Essays 2003 (2003)
• Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love (2005)

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