Anna Marie Quindlen:
(born July 8, 1952).
American author, journalist, and opinion columnist.
Her New York Times column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. Quindlen began her journalism career in 1974 as a reporter for the New York Post. Between 1977 and 1994 she held several posts at The New York Times.
Her semi-autobiographical novel One True Thing (1994) served as the basis for the 1998 film starring Meryl Streep and Renée Zellweger.
February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months hence, seems preposterous. The ground hard and cold, the snow dirty, the winter hateful, hanging on too long.
