Irish-American Writers
Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992 for her work for The New York Times. She was born in Philadelphia to an Irish-American father and an Italian-American mother, and she began her journalism career in 1974 at the New York Post. From 1977 to 1994 she held various posts at the Times (including penning the Pulitzer-winning column "Public and Private"), then focused on writing novels, including One True Thing, which was made into a movie starring Meryl Streep. From 2002 to 2009, she wrote the "Last Word" column for Newsweek magazine.
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