Anna Quindlen
Overview
United States
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author, journalist
Journalist
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, and opinion columnist
Columnist
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whose New York Times
The New York Times
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column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
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in 1992
1992 Pulitzer Prize
- Journalism awards :*Public Service:**The Sacramento Bee, For "The Sierra in Peril," reporting by Tom Knudson that examined environmental threats and damage to the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California.*Spot News Reporting:...
. She began her journalism career in 1974 as a reporter for the New York Post
New York Post
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. Between 1977 and 1994 she held several posts at The New York Times.
Quindlen left journalism in 1995 to become a full-time novelist
Novel
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. In 1999, she joined Newsweek
Newsweek
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, writing a bi-weekly column until announcing her semi-retirement in the May 18, 2009 issue of the magazine.
