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Author: Anne Fadiman

Anne Fadiman, born in New York City in 1953, is an accomplished writer and the daughter of screenwriter Annalee Whitmore Jacoby Fadiman and essayist Clifton Fadiman. A Harvard College graduate of 1975, she began her writing career as an undergraduate columnist at Harvard Magazine and went on to serve as a writer and columnist for Life, followed by a role as Editor-at-Large at Civilization. Fadiman has received multiple accolades, including National Magazine Awards for Reporting and Essays, and a National Book Critics Circle Award for her influential work, *The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down*. In 1998, she published *Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader*, a collection of personal essays about literature. She also served as editor of *The American Scholar* from 1997 to 2004 and currently holds the Francis chair in nonfiction writing at Yale University. Residing in western Massachusetts, she shares her life with her husband, writer George Howe Colt, and their two children.