Anne Fadiman

Anne Fadiman is the daughter of Clifton Fadiman (a respected literary intellectual, radio broadcaster, television personality, author, and editor) and Annalee Jacoby Fadiman (a screenwriter and war correspondent). She attended Harvard University, and she was the founding editor of The Library of Congress’s publication, Civilization. Fadiman was also an editor of the celebrated The American Scholar, and she has written two essay collections and a memoir about her father. She currently teaches nonfiction at Yale University and is married to the author George Howe Colt, with whom she has two children.