Anemona Hartocollis

Hartocollis in 2024

Anemona Maria Hartocollis (3 November 1955) is a Swiss-born American journalist for The New York Times.

Biography

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Hartocollis was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, and raised in the Potwin neighborhood of Topeka, Kansas.[1][2] Her father was Peter Hartocollis, a Greek psychoanalyst and former director of Topeka's C.F. Menninger Memorial Hospital.[3] Hartocollis graduated in 1977 from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in comparative literature where she was a reporter at The Harvard Crimson. She has twice won the Front Page Award from Newswomen's Club of New York.[4]

She began covering education for the Times in 1997.[4]

She wrote the book Seven Days of Possibilities: One Teacher, 24 Kids, and the Music That Changed Their Lives Forever, published in 2004, based on a series of articles published in the Times.

Hartocollis was married to her husband, fellow Times writer Josh Barbanel, until his death from cancer in July 2021.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Global Distinguished Lecture 2016: Anemona Hartocollis of the New York Times | South Asia Center". www.southasiacenter.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  2. ^ Hartocollis, Anemona (11 November 2016). "A Reporter Who's 'Not in Kansas Anymore' Suddenly Is". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  3. ^ "Former Menninger clinic director dies at age 90". The Topeka Capital-Journal. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  4. ^ a b "Anemona Hartocollis". The New York Times. 7 June 2006.
  5. ^ "Times Layoffs: Salkin, Konigsberg, Rimer, and More [Updated]". Intelligencer. 2009-12-16. Retrieved 2023-10-18.