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...sparkling reviews. In many ways, the author’s own path has matched her approach to writing. Though published at first only in South Africa, the novel boasted a blurb by Nobel Prize winning South African novelist J. M. Coetzee, and quickly began receiving attention. Dovey, whose mother had written one of the first scholarly treatments of Coetzee’s work, called it a “miracle.” Since then, the book has been met with widespread acclaim, and has been published or is awaiting publication in 17 countries. Dovey’s literary success...
...It’s about brains,” said Michele S. Jaffe ’91. Now an author of young adult novels, Jaffe entered the world of fiction through her romance novels, which Amazon.com called “steamy… Do not lend this to your mother.”“The sex scenes are designed to turn you on,” she said. For Jaffe, the fact that she was a Harvard graduate served to help market her books because of the perceived incongruity between sex and intellect.Camilla A. Hrdy...
...view of girls who feel really at home there... Becky Miller is certainly within that world, but she feels a little out of place. “Kaplan said she signed her book deal with HarperCollins in the summer after her sophomore year, following a book party, where her mother introduced her to an editor.Her mother, Susan Estrich, was the first female president of the Harvard Law Review, and is now a political commentator for Fox News. Her father, Martin H. Kaplan ’71, is associate dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and a former White...
...guess I was always writing, you know, in the way little kids do, with complete freedom and deep seriousness,” said James. Although she continued writing in high school, James encountered opposition from her parents when she began to consider it as a career. Her mother dismissed writing as an “unstable profession.” “I kind of shared her belief that it didn’t seem possible,” said James. At Harvard, James concentrated in Visual and Environment Studies, specializing in filmmaking. She laughed when explaining her choice...
...Zionists" a recurring part of his politicized repertoire - one most observers view as scarcely veiled anti-Semitism. In 2003, he appeared on national TV dressed as an Orthodox Israeli settler and giving the Nazi arm salute while shouting "Heil Israel!" Since then, the comic, the son of a Breton mother and Cameroonian father, has been convicted for, among other things, calling Jews "black slave traders"; for claiming that Jews exploit the Holocaust to avoid political criticism in what he called "memorial pornography"; and for slandering a popular French Jewish entertainer with allegations that he'd been a "secret donor...