Anemona Hartocollis

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

Biography Hartocollis was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, and raised in the Potwin neighborhood of Topeka, Kansas. Her father was Peter Hartocollis, a Greek psychoanalyst and former director of Topeka's C.F. Menninger Memorial Hospital. 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.

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 fellow Times writer Josh Barbanel until his death from cancer in July 2021.