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First-time authors dream of their work flying off the shelves--but not like this. One moment, Kaavya Viswanathan was a literary marvel, a Harvard sophomore with a reported $500,000 two-book deal and a highly touted chick-lit novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life. The next, her publisher, Little, Brown, was recalling every copy of Opal from the shelves, like so many tins of bad salmon. The defect? Viswanathan, 19, had plagiarized dozens of passages from two young-adult novels by Megan McCafferty...
Four days after Kaavya Viswanathan â08 came under scrutiny for possible plagiarism in her novel âHow Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,â her publisher yesterday asked stores across the country to pull the book from their shelves...
...under a month, we have seen this parable played out twiceâwith devastating plot turns even Alloy Entertainment couldnât concoctâamong our ranks at Harvard. Before allegations of plagiarism against Kaavya Viswanathan â08 surfaced, there was the story of Eugene M. Plotkin â00, who was arrested just two weeks ago for allegedly earning $6.7 million through an insider trading scheme with a colleague from Goldman Sachs. (In his fifth anniversary report, the New York Observer reported this month, Plotkin had written that he was working...
...writing to second Charles Drummondâs tolerant perspective on the controversy surrounding sophomore novelist Kaavya Viswanathan (âGirl Interrupted,â comment, Apr. 26). If a few plot points and a borrowed phrase every 10 pages constitute âliterary identity theftâ, as Tuesdayâs statement from Random House alleges, few authors will escape whipping. With Chaucer and Boccaccio, Shakespeare and Holinshead, Robert Johnson and Skip James, why not Viswanathan and McCafferty? Any literary omelet worth its salt is likely to contain a few borrowed eggs...
...appears that many people believe that Kaavya Viswanathan should be given a âbreak.â Well, it appears to me that she has been given more than a few âbreaksâ in her life to date, such as a wealthy upbringing, international experience, entry into an Ivy League college, a very lucrative book contract, and an even more lucrative movie deal. I would hazard to say that many people in this world would consider themselves more than lucky to be the recipient of a single one of the above...