Three years after that controversial departure, she earned her best reviews yet with Black and Blue, a chronicle of escape from domestic abuse.
But Quindlen's fiction clearly benefited from her decision to leave the Times. One True Thing, Quindlen's exploration of an ambitious daughter's journey home to take care of her terminally ill mother, was stronger still-a heartbreaker that was made into a movie starring Meryl Streep. It was a bestseller and a New York Times Notable Book of 1991, but was also criticized for not being as engaging as it could have been. Her first book, Object Lessons, focused on an Irish American family in suburban New York in the 1960s. Quindlen had a warm, if not entirely uncritical, reception as a novelist. But it was the two novels she had produced that led her to seek a future beyond her column. Quindlen, the third woman to hold a place among the New York Times' Op-Ed columnists, had already published two successful collections of her work when she decided to leave the paper in 1995. Awards-Pulitzer Prize for her New York Times columnĪnna Quindlen could have settled onto a nice, lofty career plateau in the early 1990s, when she had won a Pulitzer Prize for her New York Times column but she took an unconventional turn, and achieved a richer result.
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