Object Lessons (ISBN 9780394569659) is the first novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and journalist Anna Quindlen. First published in 1991, the book is a coming-of-age story centering on 13-year-old Maggie Scanlan, the youngest child of the powerful Scanlan clan. Quindlen described it as "a young person's novel."[1] The title is drawn from the phrase "object lesson," a teaching method.