Anita Bartholomew
I specialize in narrative—which is just another way of saying storytelling. I've written well over 100 narratives in my career, two of which were adapted into TV movies.
A longtime contributor to both the US and international editions of Reader's Digest (and former contributing editor to the US edition), I've also contributed to a number of other major magazines.
I’m the co-author of the award-winning Something to Prove: A Daughter’s Journey to Fulfill a Father’s Legacy, the author of The Midget's House, a historical novel inspired by my former home in Sarasota, Florida, and the author of Siege: An American Tragedy, about the US Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021.
“It's strange, isn't it, how you never know you're living the best time of your life at the moment you're living it? If you could appreciate, at that instant, that this is it, maybe you'd make certain your mind imprinted every detail of the sights, smells, sounds and sensations. Then again, maybe knowing that life will only get duller, sadder, less hopeful afterward would inject melancholy into that moment. You'd miss life's peak experience by mourning it before it passes. So perhaps it's best not to know.”
Anita Bartholomew