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Charlotte Smith published a volume of poems entitled “Elegiac Sonnets” in the year 1784. While Smith did not get a movie deal with DreamWorks, she does share one characteristic with our own Kaavya Viswanathan ’08. Both are said to have “borrowed” from other writers. Back in the 18th-century this may have turned heads, but it was largely acceptable (although Smith herself was criticized). In our own day, however, Viswanathan has been pilloried for peppering her novel, “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild...
...Harvard spokesman clarified his remarks on College administrators’ handling of the plagiarism allegations against Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 this morning, after the news service Bloomberg reported that the College would investigate the sophomore novelist...
...YORK—"I feel like the college years, it's the years where you're trying to figure yourself out through trial and error," said Megan McCafferty, the chick-lit novelist whose work was “internalized” by Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan...
...publisher of the two novels from which Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 admitted borrowing language for her own book said yesterday that it is “inconceivable” that the similarities between the books were unintentional, as Viswanathan has claimed...
...Kaavya Viswanathan is a decent, serious, and incredibly hard-working writer and student, and I am confident that we will learn that any similarities in phrasings were unintentional,” said Michael Pietsch ’78, the senior vice president and publisher of Little, Brown, on Monday...