She also edited Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love (2005) and the Best American Essays 2003. The second, At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays (2007), touched on such topics as arctic explorers, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and ice cream it was the source of a quotation in The New York Times Sunday Acrostic. The first, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, was published in 1998. Researched in a small county hospital in California, it examined a Hmong family from Laos with a child with epilepsy, and their cultural, linguistic, and medical struggles with the American medical system. Career Writing įadiman's 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 for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award. At Harvard, she roomed with Wendy Lesser ( Benazir Bhutto and Kathleen Kennedy were also in the same dorm). She attended Harvard University, graduating in 1975 from Radcliffe College with a bachelor of arts degree. 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 has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award. Her interests include literary journalism, essays, memoir, and autobiography. National Book Critics Circle Award (1997)Īnne Fadiman (born August 7, 1953) is an American essayist and reporter.

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