10 Facts About Anne Fadiman

Anne Fadiman was born on August 7,1953 and is an American essayist and reporter.

Anne Fadiman's interests include literary journalism, essays, memoir, and autobiography.

Anne Fadiman has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award.

Anne Fadiman attended Harvard University, graduating in 1975 from Radcliffe College with a bachelor of arts degree.

Anne Fadiman conducted research in a small county hospital in California, and examined the cultural and medical issues of a Hmong family from Laos who had a child with epilepsy.

Anne Fadiman edited Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love and the Best American Essays 2003.

Anne Fadiman was a founding editor of the Library of Congress magazine Civilization.

Anne Fadiman was the fourth editor of the Phi Beta Kappa quarterly The American Scholar since 1997.

Anne Fadiman left The American Scholar in 2004; she was paid an annual salary of $60,000, and was in the midst of a dispute over budgetary issues.

Since January 2005, in a program established by Yale alumnus Paul E Francis, Anne Fadiman has been Yale University's first Francis Writer in Residence, a position that allows her to teach one or two non-fiction writing seminars each year, and advise, mentor, and interact with students and editors of undergraduate publications.