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...debut novel has accumulated a growing catalog of literary prizes and 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...
...addition, Holinger also invites a novelist to speak to his students every semester. For the past several years, this visitor has been a former student of the class...
Sitting in Crema Cafe, non-fat latte in one hand and BlackBerry in the other, freshman novelist Isabel E. Kaplan ’12 parries her timid demeanor with confident eloquence. She has the air of total normalcy that most Harvard students manifest, but in both pedigree and talent, Kaplan is a far cry from normal. Her book pitch in seventh grade garnished a mention in Page Six of The New York Post, but Kaplan had to wait till the ripe age of 16 to finally sign her first book deal. However, patience paid off; Kaplan’s debut...
...James said. “Maybe it was a small act of rebellion.” However, James continued to pursue writing throughout her time at Harvard, taking creative writing classes with visiting lecturers Patricia Powell and Brad Watson, as well as with Radcliffe Institute Fellow and novelist Gish Jen ’77. “She was funny and brilliant, kind of like her work,” James said of Jen. “She made me consider the contemporary world—why we write, why we make art.” In her senior year...
...Prolific novelist Lisa Scottoline (16 books and counting) has been called "the female John Grisham." Like Grisham, Scottoline is a lawyer, and her best-selling thrillers star a number of memorable legal eagles as heroines. In Scottoline's new novel, Look Again, however, protagonist Ellen Gleeson is a reporter, not an attorney. And after Gleeson spots a "Have you seen this child?" notice about a boy who looks uncannily like her own adopted three-year-old son, the race is on. (That's only Page 1!) TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs reached Scottoline (pronounced Scot...