[3] She attended Harvard University, graduating in 1975 from Radcliffe College with a bachelor of arts degree.

She conducted research in a small county hospital in California, and examined the cultural and medical issues of a Hmong family from Laos who had a child with epilepsy.

The second, At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays (2007), touched on such topics as Arctic explorers, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and ice cream; it was the source of a quotation in The New York Times Sunday Acrostic.

She left The American Scholar in 2004; she was paid an annual salary of $60,000, and was in the midst of a dispute over budgetary issues.

[6] Since January 2005, in a program established by Yale alumnus Paul E. Francis, Anne Fadiman has been Yale University's first Francis Writer in Residence, a position that allows her to teach one or two non-fiction writing seminars each year, and advise, mentor, and interact with students and editors of undergraduate publications.