Author

Books by Anne Fadiman

Anne Fadiman is an American essayist and journalist who served as editor of The American Scholar and has taught literary nonfiction at Yale and other universities. She is the daughter of the writer and editor Clifton Fadiman. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, her first book, was researched over seven years and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction in 1997. Her essay collection Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader is widely read in literary circles. She is known for meticulous research and a prose style that makes complex subjects approachable without simplifying them.