Gulden, fictionalized versions of Prudence and Anna Quindlen. Streep was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. Criticism Writing in The New Republic, critic Lee Siegel cited Quindlen as an example of the “monsters of empathy” who “self subjugate and domesticate and assimilate every distant tragedy”. He coined the term “The Quindlen Effect” to describe this phenomenon and suggested that it began with her Times column of December 13, 1992, in which Quindlen assailed the four alleged perpetrators of the Glen Ridge rape. “True to her niche,” Siegel wrote, “Quindlen attacked with scathing indignation actions that no sane Times reader would ever defend.” Siegel also referred to Barbara Kingsolver in the same essay, along with Quindlen, derisively as “Nice Queens”. In 1999, Villanova University invited Anna Quindlen to deliver the annual commencement address. But once the announcement was made, a group of anti-abortion students planned a protest against Quindlen's positions on reproductive rights, and she withdrew as speaker. The following year, however, she spoke at Villanova's graduation. Works Nonfiction A Quilt of a Country* (2001) Living Out Loud (1988) Thinking Out Loud (1994) How Reading Changed My Life (1998) Homeless (1998) A Short Guide to a Happy Life (2000) from part of a cancelled commencement address that was to be given at Villanova Loud and Clear (2004) Imagined London (2004) Being Perfect (2005) Good Dog. Stay. (2007) Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake (2012) Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting (2019) Write for Your LIfe (2022) Novels Object Lessons (1991) One True Thing (1994) Black and Blue (1998) Blessings (2002) Rise and Shine (2006) Every Last One: A Novel (2010) Still Life with Bread Crumbs (2013) Miller's Valley (2016) Alternate Side (2018) Children's books The Tree That Came To Stay (Illustrated by Nancy Carpenter) (1992) Happily Ever After (Illustrated by James Stevenson) (1997) New table pictorials Naked Babies (Photographs by Nick Kelsh) (1996) Siblings (Photographs by Nick Kelsh) (1998) Speeches 1999 commencement speech, Mount Holyoke College 2000 commencement speech, Villanova University 2002 commencement speech, Sarah Lawrence College 2006 commencement speech, Colby College 2008 commencement speech, Kenyon College 2009 commencement speech, Wesleyan University 2011 commencement speech, Grinnell College 2017 commencement speech, Washington University in St. Louis Awards Industry awards 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary 2001 Mothers At Home Media Award 2001 Clarion Award for Best Regular Opinion Column in a magazine 2002 Clarion Award for Best Opinion Column from