Anne Fadiman
Anne Fadiman was born on August 7, 1953. She was born in New York, but raised in Connecticut and Los Angeles. She graduated from Harvard University and soon after became a wilderness instructor. She later returned to New York to pursue her writing career. She has been writing and editing for many magazines such as: Life, Civilization, and The American Scholar. She began writing her own books. In 1997 she wrote The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures which won the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and lastly the Salon Book Award. She has also authored two other pieces: Ex Libris and At Large and At Small. She now resides in Western Massachusetts with her family and is currently the Francis Writer in Residence at Yale University.
"Anne Fadiman." Steven Barclay Agency. Steven Barclay Agency, 2009. Web. 7 August 2015.
"Anne Fadiman." Steven Barclay Agency. Steven Barclay Agency, 2009. Web. 7 August 2015.