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...course, I love that she is a reporter, but why isn't she a lawyer, like many of your other heroines? You know why she isn't a lawyer? Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women. Everybody has called them legal thrillers because I always had a lawyer or a judge or somebody in the legal profession in the lead. I thought, "I have to change this perception and the only way to do it is from the inside out." But the fact...
...going into my third year - for the Philadelphia Inquirer and I've learned so much about the business. As you know, it's a really interesting business, particularly in these times. The code word is challenging but it's really gut-wrenching, and those of us who love the printed word wherever it appears worry for its future. So it was interesting to have a heroine who is under a great deal of personal pressure at the same time she is under a great deal of professional pressure. (Read "Law-School Grads See Promised Jobs Put On Hold...
...that you have avoided joining the stampede of writers to New York? Did you ever consider that? Yes, but I really just like being home. I'm a huge homebody and I just love it here. New York is great to visit, but I just would never dream of moving anywhere. Anywhere. If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house...
...studied English at the University of Pennsylvania and Philip Roth was one of your professors. Wasn't law school a snore after that? No, law school was fantastic! I loved law school. I teach law now at Penn; I teach a course that I developed called Justice and Fiction. Law school is the most academically rigorous environment I've ever been in, and I just love that. The bottom line is, what you're talking about in law school is "What is justice?" That's what I'm writing about, too. What is right and wrong? What I like about...
...hilarious! Where does your humor come from? Chee Lee, MINNEAPOLIS I don't know. I think it was natural born. I just love to make people laugh. I love to create new action with comedy together. Just myself, happy-go-lucky...