Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Anna Quindlen was born in 1953. Quindlen began her journalism career as a reporter with The New York Post. She joined The New York Times in 1977. While a columnist for The New York Times (1981-1994), she became only the third woman in the paper's history to write a regular column for its influential Op-Ed page In 1992, Quindlen was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. In 1995, she left The Times and journalism to pursue a career as a full-time novelist. She currently resides in New Jersey.

A Short Guide to a Happy Life by Anna Quindlen. "I'm not particularly qualified by profession or education to give advice and counsel," confesses author Anna Quindlen, as she begins this tender little instruction book. "It's widely known in a small circle that I make a mean tomato sauce, and I know many inventive ways to hold a baby while nursing, although I haven't had the opportunity to use any of them in years."

Black and Blue: A Novel by Anna Quindlen. Oprah Book ClubŪ Selection, April 1998: "The first time my husband hit me I was nineteen years old," begins Fran Benedetto, the broken heroine of Anna Quindlen's Black and Blue. With one sweeping sentence, the door to an abused and tortured world is swung wide open and the psyche of a crushed and tattered self-image exposed. "Frannie, Frannie, Fran"--as Bobby Benedetto liked to call her before smashing her into kitchen appliances--was a young, energetic nursing student when she met her husband-to-be at a local Brooklyn bar. She was instantly captivated by his dark, brooding looks and magnetic personality, but her fascination soon solidified into a marital prison sentence of incessant abuse and the destruction of her own identity.

Living Out Loud by Anna Quindlen. "A books that brings a most refreshing message home with substance as well as style...Quindlen integrates memories of her childhood and observations of adulthood in such a way that make her just the sort of friend you wish you'd kept in touch with."

One True Thing by Anna Quindlen. One True Thing is a film starring Meryl Streep as the cancer-stricken homemaker mother, Renee Zellweger as the daughter who quits her top-dog job to care for her, and William Hurt as the chilly professor who lets the women in the family do the heavy emotional lifting dying requires. But the real star of the project remains former New York Times everyday-life columnist Anna Quindlen, who quit her top-dog job to write novels (and who took time off from college to nurse her own dying mother).

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