Anna Quindlen: Quotes, Works, Awards, and a List of Books by Author Anna Quindlen

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"New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage." -- Anna Quindlen

Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, 1953) is an American author, 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 reporter for the New York Post. Between 1977 and 1994 she held several posts at The New York Times.

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, three 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.

Quindlen graduated from Barnard College in New York City in 1974; she now serves on its Board of Trustees. She is also on the Council of the Authors Guild and the Board of St. Luke's School in New York. Quindlen is married to Gerald Krovatin, an attorney; they have three children, Christopher, Maria, and Quin. She lives with her family in New York City.

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"A finished person is a boring person.""All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.""America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.""But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.""Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?""Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.""I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.""I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.""I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.""I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.""I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.""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.""I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.""I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.""Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.""Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.""If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.""If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.""If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.""Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.""In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.""Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.""Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.""People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.""Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us.""The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.""The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.""The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.""The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?""The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not.""The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.""The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.""There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.""There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.""There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.""There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.""Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number."

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Total Books: 200

2017 - Miller's Valley a Novel (Audio CD) → Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781491546338
ISBN-10: 1491546336
Genre: Literature & Fiction

2017 - Miller's Valley (Paperback) → Paperback, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9780812985900
ISBN-10: 0812985907
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.

2014 - Still Life with Bread Crumbs (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780812976892
ISBN-10: 0812976894
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.

2014 - Still Life with Bread Crumbs [Audio CD - Unabridged] (Audio CD)
ISBN-13: 9781480533165
ISBN-10: 1480533165
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.

2014 - Still Life with Bread Crumbs (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781400065752
ISBN-10: 1400065755
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 4/5 Stars.

2014 - Still Life with Bread Crumbs [Audio CD - Unabridged] (Audio CD) → Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9781480533127
ISBN-10: 1480533122
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 2.3/5 Stars.

2013 - Lots of Candles Plenty of Cake (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9780812981667
ISBN-10: 0812981669
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Parenting & Relationships

Currently 4/5 Stars.

2012 - Lots of Candles Plenty of Cake (Hardcover) → Paperback, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9781400069347
ISBN-10: 1400069343
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Parenting & Relationships

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.

2012 - Lots of Candles Plenty of Cake a Memoir [Audio CD - Unabridged] (Audio CD) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780307989864
ISBN-10: 0307989860
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Parenting & Relationships

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.

2011 - Every Last One (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780812976885
ISBN-10: 0812976886
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 3.9/5 Stars.

2010 - Every Last One (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781400065745
ISBN-10: 1400065747
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.

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2010 - Every Last One [Audio CD - Unabridged] (Audio CD)
ISBN-13: 9781442334007
ISBN-10: 1442334002
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 4.3/5 Stars.

2010 - Black and Blue (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9780812980493
ISBN-10: 0812980492
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.

2008 - Rise and Shine (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette
ISBN-13: 9780345505323
ISBN-10: 0345505328
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.

2007 - Good Dog Stay (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781400067138
ISBN-10: 1400067138
Genres: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.

2007 - Good Dog Stay [Audio CD - Unabridged] (Audio CD)
ISBN-13: 9780743571999
ISBN-10: 0743571991
Genre: Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Currently 3.2/5 Stars.

2006 - Rise and Shine (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette
ISBN-13: 9780375502248
ISBN-10: 0375502246
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 3.2/5 Stars.

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2004 - Loud and Clear (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette
ISBN-13: 9781400061129
ISBN-10: 1400061121
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

Currently 3.4/5 Stars.

2004 - Loud and Clear [Audio Cassette - Unabridged] (Audio Cassette)
ISBN-13: 9780739309285
ISBN-10: 0739309285
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Reference, Nonfiction

2004 - Blessings (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9780345468697
ISBN-10: 0345468694
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Substores

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.

156

2004 - Loud and Clear (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette

2003 - Blessings (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9780812969818
ISBN-10: 0812969812
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 3.7/5 Stars.

260

2002 - Blessings (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD

2002 - Blessings [Audio CD - Unabridged] (Audio CD) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD

2000 - A Short Guide to a Happy Life (Hardcover) → Hardcover

2000 - Black and Blue (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD

2000 - Naked Babies (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

1999 - Black and Blue (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD

1999 - Happily Ever After [Puffin Chapters] (Paperback)

1998 - How Reading Changed My Life [Library of Contemporary Thought] (Paperback)

1998 - Black and Blue (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD

1997 - One True Thing (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD

1995 - One True Thing (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD

1994 - One True Thing (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD

1994 - Living Out Loud (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

1993 - Thinking Out Loud on the Personal the Political the Public and the Private (Hardcover) → Paperback

1992 - Object Lessons (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

1989 - Living Out Loud (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

Rise and Shine (Other) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette

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