![]() The Lees had little doubt what had happened. A few moments later, Lia’s eyes rolled up, her arms jerked over her head, and she fainted. ![]() ![]() “When Lia was about three months old, her older sister Yer slammed the front door of the Lees’ apartment. Fadiman lives in western Massachusetts with her husband, the writer George Howe Colt, and their two children. She now holds the Francis chair in nonfiction writing at Yale. Fadiman was the editor of the intellectual and cultural quarterly The American Scholar from 1997 to 2004. ![]() Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, a collection of first-person essays on books and reading, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1998. She has won National Magazine Awards for both Reporting (1987) and Essays (2003), as well as a National Book Critics Circle Award for The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. For many years, she was a writer and columnist for Life, and later an Editor-at-Large at Civilization. She graduated in 1975 from Harvard College, where she began her writing career as the undergraduate columnist at Harvard Magazine. ![]() Anne Fadiman, the daughter of Annalee Whitmore Jacoby Fadiman, a screenwriter and foreign correspondent, and Clifton Fadiman, an essayist and critic, was born in New York City in 1953. ![]()
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