This month, Elmhurst College will welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author, Anna Quindlen, to deliver its annual Quest Lecture.
Her talk, titled "Choices & Changes," will begin at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 25, in Elmhurst College's Hammerschmidt Memorial Chapel.
Admission is free and the public is welcome.
Quindlen combines commentary on American society and the world at large with reflections on being a woman, a writer, and a mother. During the past 30 years, her work has appeared in America's most influential newspapers and magazines, as well as on fiction and non-fiction bestseller lists.
She began her journalism career in 1974 as a reporter with The New York Post and has held several posts at The New York Times, where her column, "Public and Private," won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. Quindlen left full-time journalism in 1995 to become a novelist and also currently writes The Last Word, a bi-weekly column for Newsweek.
Quindlen has written many best-selling novels, three of which have been made into movies, including "One True Thing", for which Meryl Streep received an Academy Award nomination as best actress. Her latest novel, "Rise and Shine," debuted on The New York Times bestseller list at #1.
Born in Philadelphia, Quindlen graduated from Barnard College in New York City and serves on its Board of Trustees. She lives with her husband and three children in New York City.
For more information, visit http://www.elmhurst.edu/ or call (630) 617-3033.
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