Anne Fadiman
Anne Fadiman is the author, most recently, of the essay collection Frog. Her first book, The Spirit Catches You, and You Fall Down, won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Salon Book Award. Fadiman has also written two other essay collections, Ex Libris and At Large and At Small, and a memoir, The Wine Lover’s Daughter. She is a Professor in the Practice of English and Francis Writer-in-Residence at Yale, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.