Events

The Bookcase is pleased to announce that Anna Quindlen, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and bestselling author, will be the next speaker in theLiterary Minds author series.Ms. Quindlen will be appearing at Wayzata Community Church on Friday, April 16 at 7:00 p.m. She will be here specifically to promote her new book, Every Last One, which is set to be released on April 13.Over the last 30 years, Anna Quindlen's work has appeared in some of America's most influential newspapers, many of its best-known magazines, and on both fiction and non-fiction bestseller lists. She is a novelist and also writes the prestigious "Last Word" column in Newsweek magazine.A columnist at The New York Times from 1981 to 1994, in 1990 Quindlen became only the third woman in the paper's history to write a regular column for its influential Op-Ed page when she began the nationally syndicated "Public and Private." A collection of those columns, Thinking Out Loud, was published by Random House in 1993 and was on The New York Times Best Seller List for more than three months. In 1992 Quindlen won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.With the release of A Short Guide To A Happy Life in 2000, Quindlen became the first writer ever to have books appear on the fiction, nonfiction, and self-help New York Times Best Seller lists. The book sold close to a million copies. The Literary Minds series is a collaboration between The Bookcase and Wayzata Community Church.