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Books
Etc. at Barnard Presents Author Anna Quindlen, '74, on
Wednesday, November 5, at 7 p.m.
 Barnard's
Books Etc. literary series will host Anna Quindlen,
the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, bestselling author
and new chair of the Barnard Trustees, for a reading from
her new novel, Blessings, on Wednesday, November 5, at 7 p.m..
Quindlen, who writes Newsweek's popular column, "The
Last Word," is the third Pulitzer Prize winner to be
featured in the Books Etc. series, which was launched
this fall to celebrate Barnard's remarkable community of alumnae,
faculty and visiting writers.
The series has featured Jhumpa Lahiri,
'89, and Alice Walker, both Pulitzer Prize winners, and has
attracted exceptional interest with more than 2,500 people
attending the first three readings.
Quindlen's reading will take place at 7 P.M. in the Millicent
McIntosh Student Center, Lower Level. The event is free and
open to the public. Copies of Quindlen's books, both fiction
and non-fiction, will be on sale and she will sign books,
following a question and answer session with the audience
after the reading.
Over the past 25 years, Quindlen's byline has appeared in
America's most influential newspapers and magazines and her
books on both fiction and non-fiction bestseller lists.
The winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for commentary for her
New York Times column, "Public and Private,"
Quindlen is recognized as one of the country's most perceptive
social critics.
Her Newsweek columns explore a range of topics, most
recently from the importance of organ donation and the prison
release of 60s radical Kathy Boudin to the state of feminism,
following a study by Duke University of undergraduate women
who felt they had to hide their intelligence to succeed with
men.
Quindlen has written four novels: Object Lessons (1991),
One True Thing (1994), Black and Blue (1998)
and Blessings (2003), all national bestsellers.
A Barnard trustee since 1983, she became chair of the board
this fall. Quindlen has been a generous supporter of the Barnard
Writing Fellows Program, which offers exceptional students
seminars in the teaching of writing and the opportunity to
become peer tutors.
A book based on a speech she gave to a high school graduating
class, A Short Guide to a Happy Life (2000), has sold
over one million copies. Thinking Out Loud, a
collection of her New York Times op-ed columns, was
a national bestseller.
The Books Etc. series continues on Tuesday, Nov. 18,
with prize-winning author Ursula Hegi, whose novels include
Floating in My Mother's Palm and Stones from the
River, among other works. She will read from her new novel,
Sacred Time, about an Italian-American family in the Bronx.
Hegi is a visiting instructor in the Barnard English Department
this fall. Her reading will take place in the Julius Held
Lecture Hall, 304 Barnard Hall.
Contact:
Suzanne Trimel
Vice President for Public Affairs
212-854-7583
strimel@barnard.edu
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