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...Always write with a compass but not a map,” says Ceridwen Dovey ’03, quoting the contemporary Spanish author Javier Marias to describe the way she approaches writing. Dovey’s first novel, “Blood Kin,” follows the paths of three members of a presidential staff in a nameless country. “Blood Kin” was published in 2007, and since then, Dovey’s debut novel has accumulated a growing catalog of literary prizes and sparkling reviews. In many ways, the author?...
...have embraced an industry not usually associated with the Harvard brand name.“There’s a persistent stereotype that Harvard isn’t about pleasure. It’s about brains,” said Michele S. Jaffe ’91. Now an author of young adult novels, Jaffe entered the world of fiction through her romance novels, which Amazon.com called “steamy… Do not lend this to your mother.”“The sex scenes are designed to turn you on,” she said...
...Like Urban, other faculty members at the Extension School bring their own professional, real-life experience to the classroom. Christopher S. Mooney, who teaches a course on suspense fiction, is a published author of suspense novels. Robin Lippincott, who leads a section of Intermediate Fiction Writing, has written three novels and a collection of short stories...
...School, located in Hancock Park. “Certainly the experiences and situations and the settings and the places involved are things I have to understand, to know about, otherwise I wouldn’t feel comfortable writing about it authentically,” Kaplan says. However, the young author denies that her novel falls into the roman à clef genre.“This isn’t meant to be my, and certainly isn’t, my exposé,” Kaplan says. “The characters are not Marlborough girls...
...program with James and had several workshops with her, praised her former classmate’s work. “Her sense of humor has an incredible inventiveness, but there is also a lot of heart to it,” said Russell, also a published author. “And there is sort of a kinetic energy to her writing—every sentence is humming with life.” Jordan Pavlin, a senior editor at Knopf for both James and Russell, expressed optimism not only about “Atlas of Unknowns”, but also about...