Are you one of those avid readers who wishes you could make sense out of putting words on paper but are convinced that you can’t?
New York Times #1 bestselling author Anna Quindlen has just one response: Ridiculous!
Not only can you, but you should – to connect to yourself and to those you care about in diaries, journals and letters. Doing so is a record of who you’ve been, who you are and who you are becoming.
“To write the present is to believe in the future,” Quindlen says. In Write for Your Life, she argues that there has never been a more important time to stop and record what we are thinking and feeling.
Be inspired to pick up a pen, or sit at a keyboard, after getting tips from the best!
Novelist and journalist Anna Quindlen won a Pulitzer Prize while a columnist at The New York Times. Her memoir, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, was a #1 New York Times bestseller, and her self-help book, A Short Guide to a Happy Life, sold more than one million copies. She’s the author of nine novels, including One True Thing, made into a feature film starring Meryl Streep.
Women on the Move: A Virtual Series
Friendships. Family. Ethical dilemmas. The tangled intricacies of power. Leading female authors – New York Times bestsellers, Pulitzer Prize winners, Whiting Award winners, National Jewish Book Award finalists - who have tackled those questions in novels and memoirs will join Woman on the Move discuss the inspirations for their characters, what they love about writing and where they expect their imaginations will take them next.
This series is moderated by Zibby Owens, an author and editor whose multimedia empire of a publishing house, magazine, and podcast led New York Magazine to dub her “New York’s Most Powerful Book-fluencer,” Jordana Horn, a journalist at Kveller and Marjorie Shuster, Coordinator of Literary Events at Temple Emanu-El.
- Tuesday, January 31: Anna Quindlen on Write for Your Life
- Tuesday, February 7: Pam Jenoff on Code Name Sapphire: A World War 2 Novel
- Tuesday, February 14: Allegra Goodman on Sam
- Tuesday, February 21: Ann Leary on The Foundling
- Tuesday, February 28: Amy Bloom on In Love
- Tuesday, March 7: Geraldine Brooks, Horse
- Tuesday, March 14: Jennifer Rosner on Once We Were Home
Women on the Move is sponsored by The Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation Author’ Series, honoring Theodore and Caroline Newhouse and Susan Newhouse.