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The things that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
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Birth: | 8th July, 1952 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Columnist, Journalist, Novelist, Writer |
Anna Marie Quindlen 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. She has written five best-selling novels, three of which have been made into movies. 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 and then attended Barnard College from which she graduated in 1974. She is married to prominent New Jersey attorney Gerald Krovatin whom she met while in college.
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