Anne Fadiman

• Born: 7 August 1953
• Birthplace: New York, New York
• Best Known As: Author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Anne Fadiman won the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, her 1997 report on the medical and cultural struggles of an immigrant Hmong family living in California with an epileptic child. Fadiman was a founding editor of the Library of Congress magazine Civilization, and in 1997 became the editor of the Phi Beta Kappa quarterly The American Scholar. Though her work at The American Scholar was widely praised, she was dismissed in 2004 in what was described as a budget dispute. In 2005 she became the first Paul E. Fracis Writer in Residence at Yale University. She is also the author of Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (1998).

Fadiman is a 1975 graduate of Harvard... Fadiman's father was Clifton Fadiman, the literary raconteur and host of the radio quiz show Information Please; her mother was Annalee Whitmore Jacoby Fadiman, co-author with Theodore White of the 1946 book Thunder Out of China.

Anne Fadiman (born August 7, 1953 New York) is an American author, editor and teacher. ^[1]

She is the daughter of the renowned literary, radio and television personality Clifton Fadiman and World War II correspondent and author Annalee Jacoby Fadiman. She attended Harvard University, graduating in 1975 from Radcliffe College. ^[2]

Fadiman's 1997 book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Researched in California, it examined an extended Hmong family with a child with epilepsy, and their cultural, linguistic and medical struggles in America.

She has authored two books of essays, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (1998) and At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays (2007)[1], and edited Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love (2005).

Fadiman was a founding editor of the Library of Congress magazine Civilization, and was the editor of the Phi Beta Kappa quarterly The American Scholar. She was forced out of her position at The American Scholar in 2004 in a dispute over budgetary and other issues.^[3]

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 which 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.^{[4] [5]}

Fadiman is married to the American author George Howe Colt.

References

1. ^ Fadiman, Anne. (1997). The spirit catches you and you fall down. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. [Back Cover]
2. ^ http://www.spiritcatchesyou.com/authorbio.htm
3. ^ Byrne, Richard (March 2004). "Phi Beta Kappa Forces Out Editor of 'The American Scholar'". The Chronicle of Higher Education. http://chronicle.com/daily/2004/03/2004033003n.htm. 
4. ^ "Author Fadiman named first Francis Writer in Residence". Yale Bulletin and Calendar. May 7, 2004. http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v32.n29/story3.html. 
5. ^ http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/publications/ycps/chapter_i/special_programs/francis.html

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