Anne Fadiman (born August 7, 1953) is an American author, editor and teacher. August 7 is the 219th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (220th in leap years), with 146 days remaining. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...

A native of New York, Anne Fadiman is the daughter of the renowned literary, radio and television personality Clifton Fadiman and World War II correspondent and author Annalee Jacoby Fadiman. Nickname: Big Apple Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... Clifton Fadiman (1902-1999) was a noted intellectual, author, and radio personality. ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead...

She attended Harvard University, graduating in 1975. Her 1997 book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Researched in California, it examined a generational Hmong family with an epileptic child, and their cultural, linguistic and medical struggles in America. Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) is an American association of approximately seven hundred book reviewers. ... This article is becoming very long. ... The Hmong, also known as Miao (considered derogatory by some: see below) (Chinese: 苗pinyin: Miáo; Vietnamese: Mèo or HMông; Thai: แม้ว (Maew) or ม้ง (Mong); Burmese: mun lumyo), are an Asian ethnic group speaking the Hmong language, whose homeland is in the mountainous regions of southern China (especially...

She also wrote Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, was the editor of the book Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love and was a founding editor of the Library of Congress magazine Civilization. Her seven-year tenure as the editor of the Phi Beta Kappa quarterly The American Scholar ended in 2004 in a dispute over budgetary and other issues. The Great Hall interior. ... The Phi Beta Kappa Society is an honor society which considers its mission to be fostering and recognizing excellence in undergraduate liberal arts and sciences. ...

As of January 2005, in a program established by Yale alumnus Paul E. Francis, Anne Fadiman became Yale University's first Francis Writer in Residence, a three-year position which allows her to teach a non-fiction writing seminar, and advise, mentor and interact with students and editors of undergraduate publications. 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in January • 29 Ephraim Kishon • 25 Philip Johnson • 23 Johnny Carson • 22 Parveen Babi • 20 Jan Nowak-Jeziorański • 17 Virginia Mayo • 17 Zhao Ziyang • 15... Yale redirects here. ...