Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Melanie Thernstrom '86-'87 realized that her thesis on the murder of a close friend stood out as the first non-fiction creative writing thesis the English Department had ever allowed, she never dreamed it would be published...
...wrote this as a personal memorial to my friend, it is an attempt to keep her present and not have her forgotten which is what happens when people die. They get forgotten really fast," says Thernstrom, who graduated summa cum laude in English...
...fact, Thernstrom did not even submit it to the literary agent. Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English Michael C. Blumenthal who had taught Thernstrom read her thesis as a favor to her and was amazed at its scope...
Thernstorm's thesis was the first time that the winner of the Joan Gray Untymer Radcliffe Poetry Prize tried her hand at prose, although she has had many poems published. Thernstrom says that her thesis adviser Monroe Engel, senior lecturer in English, helped her out immeasurably with writing the narrative. "I never could have written it without him," she says...
Melanie's English independent study advisor for three years in high school, Dr. Richard Shohet, says, "Melanie is the most gifted high school student I have worked with in all of my 30 years of teaching...