アン・ファディマンは、取材に基づくノンフィクション、読書や家族をめぐる随筆を書く作家。雑誌編集と執筆に携わり、イェール大学で文章の書き方を教えた。『精霊に捕まって倒れる』（原題 “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down”）では、米国に暮らすモン族の子どもの治療を追い、家族と医療者の間で病気やケアの理解が食い違う過程を描いた。同書は全米批評家協会賞を受賞した。『本の愉しみ、書棚の悩み』（原題 “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”）では、読書家の家庭で育った経験や書物をめぐる習慣を、個人の記憶と文学的な関心を重ねて記した。2026年刊の『Frog』（未邦訳）では、飼育していたカエル、印刷機、北極圏の小さな雑誌などを取り上げた。身近な対象から取材と連想を広げ、家族、言葉、ものに残る歴史を随筆として描いた。
Anne Fadiman writes reported nonfiction and essays about books, language and family. She worked in magazine editing and taught writing at Yale. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down followed the medical treatment of a Hmong child in the United States, investigating conflicts between her family's understanding of illness and that of her doctors. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Ex Libris drew on a childhood among books and the habits of readers, connecting personal memory with literary curiosity. Frog (2026) turned to subjects including a family frog, an old printer and a small Arctic magazine. Through reporting and association, its essays traced the histories and relationships attached to apparently ordinary things.
