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Speaking in front of a packed Sackler Museum Auditorium on Thursday, Scottish novelist and law professor Alexander McCall-Smith admitted to writing about real-life acquaintances in his fiction. “I take great pleasure in putting real people into books. I take their permission, well, not entirely,” he said, before warning event host Professor Arthur I. Applbaum that he might come up in a future novel. McCall-Smith, a former professor of medical ethics at the University of Edinburgh, was born in Zimbabwe and lived for many years in Botswana. His fictional oeuvre includes...
...Crimson's joint Arts and FM issue on fiction this week, a number of writers on campus submitted their work for publication. While all published submissions were high quality, one in particular stood out not only for its incredible narrative, but for its sheer lasciviousness...
...FlyBy knows smut when it sees it, and this is certainly a lot more than just smut, but you'll have to find that out for yourself. If you need any further encouragement, Hale is widely considered one of the best fiction authors on campus, and has recently won the Louis Begley Prize for fiction and the Advocate's Contest Issue. While you're at it, you might as well check out some other choice submissions. Happy reading...
Kathleen E. Hale ’09 is a senior in Winthrop House. She was most recently awarded the Louis Begley Prize for Fiction from the Harvard Advocate and was the winner of that publication's Contest Issue...
Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan ’02 never dreamed of being a rock star, an astronaut, or a firefighter. While other kids were still picking their noses, Ganeshananthan was already thinking about fiction. When Ganeshananthan entered Harvard in the fall of ’98, she already knew she wanted to be a writer. This knowledged helped focus her academic career. “I wanted to write a creative thesis and the only way I could do that was in English, so I knew I wanted to be an English major and get certain grades...