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If Michele S. Jaffe’s ’91 freshman writing preceptor had gotten her way, Jaffe’s literary career would have started and ended with an uninspiring D in Expos 20. Luckily, Jaffe found her own explanation for her instructor’s criticism.
Nearly 20 years later, the same cannot be said for Jaffe. After graduating from Harvard as a History and Literature concentrator with a summa thesis and a penchant for the past, Jaffe went on to pen a number of steamy historical fiction romances that have captured the minds (and groins...
Despite her dreaded Expos experience, Jaffe realized by her senior year at Harvard—and then later when she was composing her dissertation in Venice—that she had a passion for writing. Furthermore, the romantic genre that she quickly fell into gave her the chance to use...
Still, Jaffe wasn’t sure she didn’t desire a life in academia until she finished writing her dissertation and realized that scholarly constraints did not sit well with a free spirit like herself. For Jaffe, the boiling point came when she was approached by a...
“The woman came up to me afterwards and said she wanted to give me ‘female advice,’” Jaffe says. “And I was like, ‘Is she going to talk to me about douching??...