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...wasn’t involved in theater at Harvard at all,” Alfaro said. “I was far too shy. I stayed clear of that scene.” Such a statement might seem odd coming from an accomplished playwright—she is author of 40 plays and numerous short stories—but her admitted avoidance of the dramatic arts while at Harvard did little to hinder Alfaro’s current profession...
Alfaro, who is Japanese-American, said she could only remember there being three other Asians in her class when she arrived at Harvard in 1956. But it was gender, rather than race, that seemed to distinguish her on campus, Alfaro said. In her time as a Radcliffe College student Alfaro said she recalled that there were professors who would rather cancel class than speak freely on certain subjects—such as the novel “Finnegan’s Wake”—in front of women...
Then, in her senior year, The Harvard Advocate published two of Alfaro’s short stories, which she said pushed her to continue writing...
Currently, having just turned 71, Alfaro continues to write every day and is in the midst of her latest play about an Asian-American professor at Harvard on the cusp of old age. “When you write, everything in your life falls through the filter of the play. Sometimes it’s hard [to] extricate yourself,” Alfaro said...
...roommates over my four years of Harvard, none of them for more than a year. That makes me sound rather dysfunctional, but I prefer to see my roommate roulette as a function of transferring Houses while taking a year off during college. That’s what I tell myself, anyway...