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| name = Anne Fadiman

| image = Anne Fadiman Stanford September 2010.jpg

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| caption = Fadiman in September 2010

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1953|08|07}}

| birth_place = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]]US

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| nationalityalma_mater = [[Harvard = AmericanUniversity]]

| educationoccupation = Essayist, reporter, and = teacher

| alma_mater years_active = [[Harvard University]]

| occupation employer = Essayist, reporter, and[[Yale teacherUniversity]]

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| employer agent = [[Yale University]]

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| known_forspouse = [[George Howe = Colt]]

| notable_workschildren = 2<ref name= rain/>

| spouseparents = [[Clifton Fadiman]] (father) =<br/> [[GeorgeAnnalee HoweWhitmore ColtFadiman|Annalee Jacoby Fadiman]] (mother)

| children relatives = 2<ref name=rain/>

| parentsawards = [[National Book Critics Circle = [[Clifton FadimanAward]], Annalee Jacoby Fadiman(1997)

She is the daughter of the[[Clifton renownedFadiman]], who was active in the literary, radio, and television personalityworlds, and [[CliftonAnnalee Whitmore Fadiman|Annalee Jacoby Fadiman]], anda [[World War&nbsp;II]] correspondent and author Annalee Jacoby Fadiman.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/05/style/anne-fadiman-a-writer-wed-to-george-howe-colt.html |title=Anne Fadiman, a Writer, Wed to George Howe Colt |date=5 March 5, 1989 |publisherwork=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> She attended [[Harvard University]], graduating in 1975 from [[Radcliffe College]] with a bachelor of arts degree.<ref>[{{Cite web |url=http://www.spiritcatchesyou.com/authorbio.htm |title=SpiritCatchesYou.com] |access-date=February 14, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090225182538/http://www.spiritcatchesyou.com/authorbio.htm |archive-date=February 25, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> At Harvard, she roomed with [[Wendy Lesser]], a future writer. ([[Benazir Bhutto]] and [[Kathleen Kennedy Townsend|Kathleen Kennedy]] were alsolived in the same dorm).<ref name=rain>{{cite news|last1=Smokler|first1=Kevin|title=Reading ’til'til 3:00&nbsp;am: An Interview with Anne Fadiman|url=http://www.raintaxi.com/reading-til-300-am-an-interview-with-anne-fadiman/|work=[[Rain Taxi]]|issue=Winter 2008/09}}</ref>

Fadiman's has had a career in reporting and writing. Her 1997 book ''[[The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down]]: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures'' won the 1997 [[National Book Critics Circle Award]] as well as, the [[Los Angeles Times Book Prize|''Los Angeles Times'' Book Prize]] for Current Interest, and the [[Salon (website)|Salon]] Book Award. ResearchedShe conducted research in a small county hospital in [[California]], itand examined the cultural and medical issues of a [[Hmong people|Hmong]] family from [[Laos]] withwho had a child with [[epilepsy]],. andTheir theirefforts to get treatment for the child were constrained by cultural, linguistic, and medical strugglesdifferences withas well as limitation of the [[Health care in the United States|American medical system]]. Their culture had a different explanation for epilepsy.<ref name=spiritmac>{{cite web |title=''The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down'' | url = http://us.macmillan.com/thespiritcatchesyouandyoufalldown/AnneFadiman | website=Macmillan |accessdateaccess-date=June 4, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140602044227/http://us.macmillan.com/thespiritcatchesyouandyoufalldown/AnneFadiman |archive-date=June 2, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

She hasalso authoredwrote two books of essays. The first, ''Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader,'' (was published in 1998). andThe second, ''At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays'' (2007), atouched collectionon ofsuch essaystopics onas Arctic explorers, [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], [[postal history]], and ice cream, among other topics; it was the source of an unencrypteda quotation in the ''[[The New York Times]]'' Sunday [[Acrostic]].<ref name=yale/>

She also edited ''Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love'' (2005) and the ''Best American Essays 2003'' (2003).<ref name=yale/>

She was the fourth editor of the [[Phi Beta Kappa]] quarterly ''[[The American Scholar (magazine)|The American Scholar]]'' since 1997, and. underUnder her direction, it won three [[National Magazine Awards]] in six years. She left ''The American Scholar'', wherein 2004; she was paid an annual salary of $60,000, inand 2004,was in the midst of a dispute over budgetary issues. At the time of her departure, the journal faced a budget deficit of about $250,000; and aits circulation ofwas about 28,000.<ref>Eakin, Emily, [https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/30/arts/literary-journal-s-editor-to-leave-in-budget-dispute.html "Literary Journal's Editor to Leave in Budget Dispute"], ''The New York Times'', March 30, 2004</ref>

Since January 2005, in a program established by Yale alumnus [[Paul Francis|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.<ref>{{cite journal | title = Author Fadiman named first Francis Writer in Residence | journal = Yale Bulletin and Calendar | date = May 7, 2004 | url = http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v32.n29/story3.html | access-date = November 14, 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090418125603/http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v32.n29/story3.html | archive-date = April 18, 2009 | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>[http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/publications/ycps/chapter_i/special_programs/francis.html "Francis Writer-in-Residence"]</ref>

In 2012 she received the [[Richard H. Brodhead]] '68 Prize for Teaching Excellence by Non-Ladder Faculty.<ref name=susan>{{cite news|last1=Gonzalez|first1=Susan|title=In Anne Fadiman’sFadiman's writing classes, it’sit's all about making what is good ‘even'even better’better'|url=http://news.yale.edu/2012/04/20/anne-fadiman-s-writing-classes-it-s-all-about-making-what-good-even-better|work=YaleNews|date=20 April 20, 2012}}</ref>

Fadiman is married to the American author [[George Howe Colt]]. They have two children and a dog named Typo.<ref name=rain/>

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