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Anne Fadiman was born on 7 August, 1953 in New York City, US, is an American essayist, journalist and magazine editor. Discover Anne Fadiman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

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Occupation Essayist, reporter, and teacher
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 7 August, 1953
Birthday 7 August
Birthplace New York City, US
Nationality United States

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Who Is Anne Fadiman's Husband?

Her husband is George Howe Colt

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Parents Clifton Fadiman (father) Annalee Jacoby Fadiman (mother)
Husband George Howe Colt
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Children 2

Anne Fadiman Net Worth

Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Anne Fadiman worth at the age of 70 years old? Anne Fadiman’s income source is mostly from being a successful teacher. She is from United States. We have estimated Anne Fadiman's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
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1953

Anne Fadiman (born August 7, 1953) is an American essayist and reporter.

Her interests include literary journalism, essays, memoir, and autobiography.

She has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award.

She is the daughter of the literary, radio, and television personality Clifton Fadiman and World War II correspondent and author Annalee Jacoby Fadiman.

1975

She attended Harvard University, graduating in 1975 from Radcliffe College with a bachelor of arts degree.

At Harvard, she roomed with Wendy Lesser (Benazir Bhutto and Kathleen Kennedy were also in the same dorm).

1997

Fadiman's 1997 book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures won the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award as well as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award.

Researched in a small county hospital in California, it examined a Hmong family from Laos with a child with epilepsy, and their cultural, linguistic, and medical struggles with the American medical system.

She has written two books of essays.

She was the fourth editor of the Phi Beta Kappa quarterly The American Scholar since 1997, and under her direction, it won three National Magazine Awards in six years.

1998

The first, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, was published in 1998.

2004

She left The American Scholar, where she was paid an annual salary of $60,000, in 2004, in the midst of a dispute over budgetary issues.

At the time of her departure the journal faced a budget deficit of about $250,000 and a circulation of about 28,000.

2005

She also edited Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love (2005) and the Best American Essays 2003.

Since January 2005, in a program established by Yale alumnus Paul E. Francis, Anne Fadiman has been Yale University's first Francis Writer in Residence, a position that allows her to teach one or two non-fiction writing seminars each year, and advise, mentor, and interact with students and editors of undergraduate publications.

2007

The second, At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays (2007), touched on such topics as arctic explorers, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and ice cream; it was the source of a quotation in The New York Times Sunday Acrostic.

2012

In 2012 she received the Richard H. Brodhead '68 Prize for Teaching Excellence by Non-Ladder Faculty.

Fadiman is married to American author George Howe Colt.

They have two children and a dog named Typo.

2017

Fadiman has published a memoir about her relationship with her father, The Wine Lover's Daughter (2017).

Fadiman was a founding editor of the Library of Congress magazine Civilization.