The students at a New York City school discovered how important poetry can be even in the busiest lives when they asked journalists, politicians, musicians, novelists, filmmakers, actors and poets, to send in their favorite verse with an explanation of why they chose it. This book presents works selected by 50 well-known people, from Jane Alexander to Elie Wiesel to Tom Wolfe, from Peter Jennings to Isabella Rossellini to Wendy Wasserstein. Line drawings throughout.
Anna Quindlen is the author of three bestselling novels, Object Lessons, One True Thing and Black and Blue, and three non-fiction books, Living Out Loud, Thinking Out Loud and A Short Guide to a Happy Life. Her New York Times column 'Public and Private' won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992. She is currently a columnist for Newsweek and lives with her husband and children in New York.
