- Anna Quindlen is a 1970 graduate of South Brunswick High School and a 1974 graduate of Barnard College
- Worked as a reporter for the NEW YORK POST starting in 1974. She became a noted journalist and opinion columnist. Her NEW YORK TIMES column, “Public and Private,” won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992
- Left journalism to become a full-time novelist in the 1990s. Her semi-autobiographical novel, ONE TRUE THING, served as the basis for the 1998 film starring Meryl Streep and Renee Zellweger. In total, she has written nine novels and twelve works of non-fiction. These include OBJECT LESSONS (1991); BLACK AND BLUE (1998); STILL LIFE WITH BREAD CRUMBS (2013); and MILLER’S VALLEY (2016). In non-fiction they include A QUILT OF A COUNTRY (2001); LOUD AND CLEAR (2004); BEING PERFECT (2005); and NANAVILLE: ADVENTURES IN GRANDPARENTING (2019)
- In 1999, Anna Quindlen joined NEWSWEEK to write a bi-weekly column, which concentrated on criticism of the rapid pace and increasing materialism in modern life. She left NEWSWEEK in 2009
- Has received honorary degrees from seventeen colleges and universities. She has also received a University Medal of Excellence from Columbia, a Poynter Fellow in Journalism from Yale, and a Mothers at Home Media Award
“I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves”
From a 1991 New York Times article