the Association for Women in Communications Honorary degrees Colby College Dartmouth College Denison University Grinnell College, May 2011 Hamilton College, May 2006 Kenyon College, May 2008 Moravian College Mount Holyoke College Nantucket High School Penn State Sarah Lawrence College Smith College Springfield College, May 2018 Stevens Institute of Technology Villanova University Washington University in St. Louis Wesleyan University Other awards from universities University Medal of Excellence from Columbia Poynter Fellow in Journalism at Yale Victoria Fellow in Contemporary Issues at Rutgers Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Honorary Doctorate from The Pennsylvania State University (Aug.18 2007) Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree from Washington University in St. Louis. (pending for 2017) Other awards 2006 Amelia Earhart Award from Crittenton Women's Union 2016 inductee into the New Jersey Hall of Fame References External links Anna Quindlen at Random House Anna Quindlen's columns for Newsweek Anna Quindlen talks about her novel Rise and Shine video Interview on NPR in April 2012 1952 births 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American children's writers American columnists American women novelists Barnard College alumni Wesleyan University people American people of Irish descent American writers of Italian descent Living people Newsweek people Writers from Manhattan People from South Brunswick, New Jersey South Brunswick High School (New Jersey) alumni Pulitzer Prize for Commentary winners Writers from Philadelphia The New York Times columnists American women columnists Writers from New Jersey American women children's writers 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers Novelists from New York (state) Novelists from Pennsylvania 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers