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...Brown’s The DaVinci Code. Langdon achieved international renown a quarter century after philosophy professor Homer Kelly graced the pages of Jane Langdon’s 1978 Murder in Memorial Hall. Chase’s economics department colleague Henry Spearman plays amateur investigator extraordinare in the 1986 novel Fatal Equlibrium. But smart and sassy Nikki Chase shatters gender and color barriers to become the first fictional African-American female Harvard professor-cum-sleuth...
Thankfully, this story is not fact, but fiction—taken from William Faulkner’s famous novel, The Sound and the Fury. There’s no proof that Faulkner even visited the campus before publishing the novel in 1929. But Faulkner fanatics have ensured that Compson will be remembered alongside other—albeit more visibly memorialized—Harvard figures such as Harry Widener...
...isn’t the subject matter of Blue Blood, first novel of Edward Conlon ’87, that has won the cop drama extensive media coverage and a spot atop bestseller lists. It’s the author himself, a literally blue-collared detective for the NYPD who happens to have a Harvard diploma. FM tracked Conlon down for a phone interview while he was on tour in California, and the author was happy to talk about hiding his Harvard degree from his fellow cops, his first break into security work as a receptionist for HUPD...
...Linda Barnes’ newest novel, Deep Pockets, Carlyle investigates the blackmail of a Harvard Medical School professor, Wilson Chaney. After prying into the suicide of an undergraduate with whom he has an affair, Chaney is mysteriously blackmailed and threatened. Private eye Carlyle untangles the web between Chaney and his colleagues, his wife and the undergraduate’s ex-con ex-boyfriend. The book deals with lies and intrigue; lo and behold, the path to truth is fraught with hidden danger. Ultimately, Carlyle digs too deep and ends up in a fix herself...
...DIED. HUBERT SELBY JR., 75, former merchant marine who wrote novels thick with drugs, violence and human failings, including Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream; in Los Angeles. While working on a freighter at the age of 18, Selby contracted a nearly fatal case of tuberculosis, and during his convalescence he developed a taste for literature and addictions?later kicked?to alcohol and morphine. His 1964 novel Last Exit drew critical praise for its realistic portrayal of doomed prostitutes, dejected transvestites and predatory ex-cons, and was also scorned for its graphic depictions of rape, beatings...