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Anne Fadiman (born August 7, 1953) is an American essayist and reporter. Her interests include literary journalism , essays, memoir, and autobiography. [ 2 ] She has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award.
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures is a 1997 book by Anne Fadiman that chronicles the struggles of a Hmong refugee family from Houaysouy, Sainyabuli Province, Laos, [1] the Lees, and their interactions with the health care system in Merced, California.
Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadiman (May 15, 1904 – June 20, 1999) was an American intellectual, author, editor, and radio and television personality. He began his work in radio, and switched to television later in his career.
Annalee Whitmore Fadiman (May 27, 1916 – February 5, 2002) [1] was a scriptwriter for MGM, and World War II foreign correspondent for Life and Time magazines. [2] Under the name Annalee Jacoby she was the co-author with Theodore H. White of Thunder Out of China , a book of reportage on World War Two in China .
The Best American Essays is a yearly anthology of magazine articles published in the United States. [1] It was started in 1986 and is now part of The Best American Series published by HarperCollins. [2]
John Richard Hersey (June 17, 1914 – March 24, 1993) was an American writer and journalist. He is considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reportage. [1]
In the book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman discusses a woman who gave birth to twelve of her fifteen children alone in the middle of the night. The woman, Foua, delivered each child into her own hands in complete silence, believing that noise would "thwart the birth".
Fadiman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Anne Fadiman (born 1953), American writer and journalist; Clifton Fadiman (1904–1999), American editor, writer, radio host and television personality; Dorothy Fadiman (born 1939), American film director; James Fadiman (born 1939), American psychologist and writer