Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2013. Sixth printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 8 inches. xiii, [1], 204, [4] pages. A Reader's Guide. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Autographed copy sticker on front cover. Signed by the author on the title page. Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, 1952) is an American author, journalist, and opinion columnist. Her New York Times column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. She began her journalism career in 1974 as a reporter for the New York Post. Between 1977 and 1994 she held several posts at The New York Times. Her semi-autobiographical novel One True Thing (1994) served as the basis for the 1998 film starring Meryl Streep and Renée Zellweger. Anna Quindlen left journalism in 1995 to become a full-time novelist. In 1999, she joined Newsweek, writing a bi-weekly column until she announced her semi-retirement in the May 18, 2009, issue of the magazine. Quindlen is known as a critic of what she perceives to be the fast-paced and increasingly materialistic nature of modern American life. More