About Anne Fadiman
Anne Fadiman is an American essayist and reporter. Her interests include literary journalism, essays, memoir, and autobiography. She has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award. The first, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, was published in 1998. Under her direction, it won three National Magazine Awards in six years.
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