Novelist, social critic and former Newsweek and New York Times columnist Anna Quindlen has provided audiences with her perspective on events of the day for over 30 years, delicately balancing the political with the personal.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author, Quindlen recently retired from her Newsweek column of ten years, “The Last Word,” though she will continue to write pieces for the magazine. She began her career at age 18 as a copy girl for The New York Post, joining The New York Times a few years later. Starting off as a general assignment reporter, she eventually became the third woman in the paper’s history to write for its influential Op-Ed page when she began her award-winning column “Public and Private.”
Her bestseller, One True Thing, was made into a film starring Meryl Streep and Renee Zellweger, and her bestsellers Blessings and Black and Blue were both made into TV movies. Her novel, Rise and Shine, debuted on The New York Times bestseller list at #1, and A Short Guide to a Happy Life has sold over one million copies. Her most recent book Good Dog. Stay. is about her beloved black Labrador, Beau. She is currently working on a new novel, Every Last One, to be released in April 2010.
Chair of the Board of Trustees at Barnard College, she is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and holds honorary degrees from more than a dozen American universities. 
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Social Critic