Leading a Double Life

Newsweek, September, 2002 by Susannah Meadows

When Anna Quindlen was about 10 years old, she went to the library to scope out her future real estate. She found the exact place on the shelf where her books would be filed: one day she'd be sandwiched between Marcel Proust and Ayn Rand. (There were no Q's at the time).

The NEWSWEEK columnist has long since widened the gap between the French symbolist and the objectivist. "Blessings," which hit No. 2 on Amazon last week just as it arrived in stores, is Quindlen's fourth novel and 10th book. As a journalist, she's won a Pulitzer--for her former New York Times column "Public and Private"--and this year she was a National Magazine Award finalist for her NEWSWEEK writing. As a novelist, she's a best-selling author, and one of those books, "One True Thing," was made into a film...

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