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Author: Anne Fadiman
Fadiman is the author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction, the Salon Book Award for nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for current interest nonfiction, and the Boston Book Review Ann Rea Jewell Award for nonfiction. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down tells the story of a refugee family from Laos and its tragic encounters with the American medical system. The Washington Post called it "an intriguing, spirit-lifting, extraordinary exploration." Fadiman's essays and articles have appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, among other publications. While she was a staff writer at Life, she won a National Magazine Award for Reporting for her reportage on suicide among the elderly. In 1997, Fadiman delivered the Phi Beta Kappa orations at both Harvard (of which she is a 1975 graduate) and Yale. She was a 1991-92 recipient of a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford. Fadiman lives with her husband and two children in western Massachusetts,
where she teaches nonfiction writing at Smith College. |
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Fadiman is the editor of The American Scholar, a literary quarterly
that has been published since 1932 by the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Her journal received last year's National Magazine Award for the
best American magazine with a circulation under 100,000.