Anna QuindlenAnna Quindlen is the author of three best - selling novels, Object Lessons, One True Thing, and Black and Blue. Her latest novel, Blessings, came out in 2002. Her New York Times column ''''Public and Private'''' won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992; a selecton of those columns was published in the book Thinking Out Loud. She is also author of a collection of her ''''Life in the 30's'''' columns, Living Out Loud; a book for the Library of Contemporary Thought, How Reading Changed My Life; and two children's books, The Tree That Came to Stay and Happily Ever After. She is currently a columnist for Newsweek and resides with her husband and children in New York City. Read More Read Less