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...title of her memoir aptly describes the gulf Gray perceived between her and her parents. Her mother, the vain and extravagant hat designer Tatiana, and her stepfather Alexander Liberman, who rose to become the editorial director of Cond?? Nast, were dedicated to each other and to their mutual ascent in post--World War II New York City society, lavishing attention on friends like Marlene Dietrich and Irving Penn but often neglecting the young woman sharing their home. The book is a brisk, bittersweet and ultimately forgiving look at two larger-than-life figures and the shadows they cast...
...MARYSE COND??‰, DARRYL PINCKNEY, AND PATRICIA POWELL.  Hailing from Guadeloupe and considered one of the premier literary voices of the modern Francophone world, Cond??© will read from her 1996 tale Segu.  She will be joined by Darryl Pinckney, whose work Out There:  Mavericks of Black Literature is based on a recent series of lectures at Harvard. Briggs-Copeland Fellow Patricia Powell, who will present her novel The Pagoda.  The event is co-sponsored by Harvard’s W.E.B. DuBois Center and Harvard Book Store.  Wednesday, March...
...Cond??© has taught at the Sorbonne, the University of Virginia, the University of California at Berkeley and Cornell University. She was a producer for Radio France International and has lived in her native Guadaloupe, Senegal, France and Great Britain. Cond??©, invited to Harvard by Professor Susan Suleiman, is only here for one semester...
...Cond??© currently teaches an undergraduate/graduate French literature class and a women's studies class. Both classes have small enrollments and relatively few undergraduates, although both were open to all students...
...international celebrities because they are invited to teach by a small department rather than one of the more well-known Harvard disciplines. Harvard's size and decentralized administration should not be an excuse for rudeness and lack of action. Perhaps next September students and faculty will realize that Maryse Cond??© was here at Harvard and, at the time, few people even noticed...