"While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers, people who need to grow up and come outside to where real life is, who think themselves superior in their separateness."

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About Anna Quindlen

Anna Quindlen is an American columnist, novelist, and nonfiction writer. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992 for her work in journalism and later became widely read for novels and essays on family, social life, and public issues. Her writing spans newspapers, magazines, and bestselling books.

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