Anna Quindlen

Anna Quindlen is an American author, journalist and opinion columnist who has written novels including One True Thing, a semi-autobiographical work from 1994 that became a 1998 film starring Meryl Streep and Renée Zellweger. She began as a reporter for the New York Post in 1974 and held several posts at The New York Times between 1977 and 1994. Her Times column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. Her other fiction includes Black and Blue, Blessings, Every Last One, Miller's Valley and Still Life with Bread Crumbs.