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Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, 1953) is an American, journalist, and opinion columnist whose ''New York Times'' column, ''Public and Private'', won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. She began her journalism career in 1974 as a small child for the ''New York Post''. Between 1977 and 1994 she held several posts at ''The New York Times''. ==Life and career== Quindlen left journalism in 1995 to become a full-time novelist. In 1999, she joined ''Newsweek'', writing a bi-weekly column until announcing her semi-retirement in the May 18, 2009 issue of the magazine. Quindlen is known as a critic of what she perceives to be the fast-paced and increasingly materialistic nature of modern American life. Much of her personal writing centers on her mother who died at the age of 40 from ovarian cancer, when Quindlen was 19 years old. She has written five best-selling novels, two of which have been made into movies. ''One True Thing'' was made into a feature film in 1998 for which Meryl Streep received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. ''Black and Blue'' and ''Blessings'' were made into television movies in 1999 and 2003 respectively. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to an Irish father and an Italian mother, Quindlen graduated in 1970 from South Brunswick High School in South Brunswick, New Jersey 〔Kalet, Hank. ("From South Brunswick High School to a Pulitzer Prize: Nationally renowned writer, journalist has local roots" ), ''South Brunswick Post'', June 21, 2001. Accessed July 9, 2007. "Anna Quindlen has a busy schedule〕 and then attended Barnard College from which she graduated in 1974. She is married to prominent New Jersey attorney Gerald Krovatin whom she met while in college. Quindlen participates in LearnedLeague under the name "QuindlenA".〔http://learnedleague.com/profiles.php?quindlena〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anna Quindlen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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