Word: willigã
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Dates: during 2005-2005
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...Willig??s debut novel, The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, was published in February to strong sales. The light-hearted page-turner flits daringly between the present day and Napoleonic France, where disguised espionage is as common as bodice-ripping passion...
...Still, Willig??s mind was racing with the more free-wheeling, swashbuckling exploits of the Carnation and the Gentian, and word began...
...Lauren’s friends certainly knew that she was writing a novel, but she didn’t talk about it overmuch,” writes Willig??s friend Elizabeth W. Mellyn in an e-mail. Mellyn, a fifth-year doctoral student in history—who, as it happens, is working on The Relic Thieves, a young-adult novel set in fifteenth-century Italy—knows something about balancing fiction with graduate-level history...
...Willig??s doctoral dissertation was less patient. She continued to write Carnation through the summer of 2002, but in the fall of that year, she headed to London for a year-long academic research jaunt not unlike that of Eloise Kelly in her novel...
...Willig??s next mission took her back to the States on a “totally accidental” turn to Harvard Law School...