Anne Herbert (1950-2015) was an American journalist and author. She was raised in Ohio and wrote mostly in California.

Biography

Herbert was an assistant editor of ''

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'', a precursor to the ''

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''. She coined the phrases, " Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty." and (paraphrasing

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) "Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries." Her book ''The Rising Sun Neighborhood'' was serialized in the March 1981

Whole Earth Catalog The ''Whole Earth Catalog'' (WEC) was an American counterculture magazine and product catalog published by Stewart Brand several times a year between 1968 and 1972, and occasionally thereafter, until 1998. The magazine featured essays and articl ...

. Her book ''Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty'' was published in 2016 by

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. An article in the December 1991 issue of '' Glamour'' about the history of the "random kindness" phrase described Herbert as "tall, blonde, and forty" and as living in

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. Between 2005 and 2012, she lived in the

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in the guise of a street person, while writing and editing. Anne Herbert died on December 18, 2015 in

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California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...

References

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Peace and Love and Noticing the Details
– blog maintained by Herbert between 2005 and June, 2015 American women journalists 1952 births 2015 deaths 20th-century American journalists 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers {{US-journalist-1950s-stub