Anne Fadiman
Anne Fadiman (born August 7, 1953 in New York City ) is an American writer.
Life
Anne Fadiman is a daughter of the writer Clifton Fadiman and the journalist Annalee Whitmore Jacoby. She graduated from Radcliffe College , Harvard. From 1997 to 2004 she was the editor of The American Scholar magazine of the Phi Beta Kappa organization . She writes for various magazines and together with Penny Wolin wrote the American Dreamer column at Life .
Her book about an epileptic child from Laos who is being treated in the US won the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and made her famous.
She edited several books and in 2014 posthumously a volume with stories by Marina Keegan . Since 2005 she has been teaching non-fiction writing at Yale University . In 2015 she was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Fadiman is married to journalist and writer George Howe Colt , they have two children and live in Western Massachusetts .
Works (selection)
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. A Hmong Child, her American Doctors, and the Collision of two Cultures. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York 1997, ISBN 0-374-52564-1 .
- The spirit grabs you and you fall to the ground: a Hmong child, his western doctors and the clash of two cultures . Translation Leonie von Reppert-Bismarck and Thomas Rütten . Berlin: Berlin-Verlag, 2000 ISBN 3-8270-0336-9
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Ex libris: confessions of a common reader . New York: Farrar, Sraus and Giroux, 1998 ISBN 0-374-14860-0
- Ex Libris - Confessions of a Bibliomaniac . Translation of Melanie Walz. Munich: SchimerGraf, 2005 ISBN 3-86555-023-1
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At large and at small: familiar essays . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
- Everything that makes up life: frivolous essays . Translation of Melanie Walz . Munich: SchirmerGraf, 2007 ISBN 978-3-86555-046-0
Web links
- Literature by and about Anne Fadiman in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Anne Fadiman in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by Anne Fadiman at perlentaucher.de
- Anne Fadiman , Profile at Yale
Individual evidence
- ^ Anne Fadiman, a Writer, Wed to George Howe Colt , in: New York Times , March 5, 1989
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fadiman, Anne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th August 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |