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Anne Fadiman

Biography

Anne Fadiman

Anne Fadiman is the author of THE WINE LOVER'S DAUGHTER, a memoir about her father (FSG, 2017). Her first book, THE SPIRIT CATCHES YOU AND YOU FALL DOWN (FSG, 1997), won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Salon Book Award. Fadiman has also written two essay collections: AT LARGE AND AT SMALL and EX LIBRIS, and is the editor of REREADINGS: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love (all published by FSG). She is the Francis Writer-in-Residence at Yale.

Anne Fadiman

Books by Anne Fadiman

The Wine Lover's Daughter: A Memoir
by Anne Fadiman - Memoir, Nonfiction

An appreciation of wine --- along with a plummy upper-crust accent, expensive suits, and an encyclopedic knowledge of Western literature --- was an essential element of Clifton Fadiman’s escape from lower-middle-class Brooklyn to swanky Manhattan. But wine was not just a class-vaulting accessory; it was an object of ardent desire. THE WINE LOVER’S DAUGHTER traces the arc of a man’s infatuation from the glass of cheap Graves he drank in Paris in 1927; through the Château Lafite-Rothschild 1904 he drank to celebrate his 80th birthday, when he and the bottle were exactly the same age; to the wines that sustained him in his last years, when he was blind but still buoyed, as always, by hedonism.

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
by Anne Fadiman