Anna Quindlen

Anna Quindlen is an American author of women’s fiction and family saga novels and non-fiction books. She is also a journalist and opinion columnist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992 for her New York Times column Public and Private . Quindlen gave up journalism in order to become a full-time novelist in 1995, but then started writing for Newsweek in 1999, which ran until 2009. She is a vocal critic of materialism in American culture. Anna lives in New York City with her husband, Gerald Krovatin – a New Jersey attorney.