Anne Fadiman
Autor(a) de The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
About the Author
Anne Fadima is the editor of The American Scholar, Recipient of a National Magazine Award for Reporting, she has written for Civilization, Harper's, Life, and The New York Times, among other publications. She lives in New York City. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Obras de Anne Fadiman
The American Scholar 1999-1 Winter 2 cópias
[[some other damned thing…?]] 1 exemplar(es)
the America Scholar 1 exemplar(es)
The American Scholar 1998-3 Summer 1 exemplar(es)
The American Scholar 1999-4 Autumn 1 exemplar(es)
The American Scholar 2003-3 Summer 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Contribuinte — 447 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1953-08-07
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
New Haven, Connecticut, USA - Educação
- Radcliffe College (AB|1975)
- Ocupação
- Francis Writer-in-Residence, Yale College
magazine editor
writer
essayist - Relacionamentos
- Fadiman, Clifton (father)
Jacoby, Annalee (mother)
Colt, George Howe (spouse)
Lesser, Wendy (college roommate) - Organizações
- The American Scholar
Yale University
Civilization - Premiações
- National Magazine award for Reporting
- Agente
- Steven Barclay Agency
- Pequena biografia
- Anne Fadiman is the daughter of Clifton Fadiman and World War II correspondent and author Annalee Jacoby Fadiman. She came to national attention with her 1997 award-winning book "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down." Fadiman was a founding editor of the Library of Congress magazine Civilization, and was the editor of The American Scholar.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 25
- Also by
- 11
- Membros
- 11,264
- Popularidade
- #2,090
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Resenhas
- 389
- ISBNs
- 54
- Idiomas
- 10
- Favorito
- 65
- Pedras de toque
- 989
The author loves words, and the more obscure, the better, it seems. This was what turned me off the most, because it just seemed so pretentious. I'm an avid reader who reads a wide variety of genres, authors, etc., and there were a ridiculous number of words I didn't understand. Since I was reading this for fun, I didn't want to have to look up all those words in a dictionary. Suffice it to say, this isn't super layperson-friendly.
There were some stories here and there that I enjoyed, though I wasn't particularly inspired by the books or authors mentioned within. Fadiman and I have very different moral and religious beliefs, as well, so I didn't connect with her much.
There is profanity here, including the name of Christ used as an exclamation.… (mais)