Free How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen

Everything
, edited by Deborah Brodie, and
The Columbia Book of Quotations
, edited by Robert Andrews.
    Many dedicated readers helped me think about the issues raised in this book. I would like to thank Eden Ross Lipson, Eugene Kennedy, Una Cadegan,Eden Stewart Eisman at St. Luke’s School in New York City, Carol Miles at the American Booksellers Association, Joyce Meskis of the Tattered Cover bookstore in Denver, and the members of the St. David’s book club, who invited me in for coffee and conversation one winter night: M. Karen Redmond, Maud Walker, Joyce Guyer, Sylvia Severance, Patricia Graham, Jeanne McGuigan, Diane O’Hara, Jean Welz, Ann Crapo, Linda Edie, Margaret Murphy, Phyllis Hughes.
    As always, Kate Medina and Amanda Urban make everything possible for me professionally. And personally there are Janet Maslin and Ben Cheever, Quin, Christopher, Maria, and Gerry Krovatin.
    A special thank-you to teachers and librarians. If not you, not me.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
    A NNA Q UINDLEN is the author of the national bestseller,
A Short Guide to a Happy Life
, and three bestselling novels. Her
New York Times
column “Public and Private” won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992, and a selection of these columns was published as
Thinking Out Loud
. She is also the author of a collection of her “Life in the 30’s” columns,
Living Out Loud
, and two children’s books,
The Tree That Came to Stay
and
Happily Ever After
. She is currently a columnist for
Newsweek
and lives with her husband and children in New York City.