Word: fictionizing
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...down from Randall in Pennypacker Hall and has been her best friend ever since. “She’d had a difficult relationship with her mother, who was really not a good mother, a terrible mother.”Her real-world childhood would later influence her fiction, which examines the ambiguous relationships between mothers and daughters. For her English thesis, she examined what she calls the “dark side” of mother-daughter relationships in Jane Austen’s novels. But Randall discourages comparisons between her writing and her life...
...course, I do OK writing fiction for my living,” he says...
...have nothing good to say about my English classes,” he says, adding that he applied to and was rejected from an Expository Writing class about fiction writing...
...could say that well-known author Melissa E. Scott ’81 fell into science-fiction writing.Scott first encountered the genre after a gym-class incident that left her with a broken arm and a gig as a library monitor. “I’m not the world’s most coordinated human being,” she says. A precocious child who learned to read at three, Scott recounts becoming immersed in thrillers while at the library. “From then on, I was pretty much hooked,” Scott says. Scott...
...come terribly often,” says Whitman, recently back from Mexico City. While she has relinquished involvement from corporate boards, she still sits on executive boards for research institutes.During the reunion, Whitman will participate in a symposium titled “Globalization: Sorting Facts From Fiction.”Even though Whitman and Cronin went their separate ways after freshman year, Cronin says they remained in touch and now vacation together. “She travels the world, but she doesn’t forget the rest of us,” Cronin says. “When...