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...matter how messed up Mary Karr's childhood seemed in The Liars' Club or how tumultuous her adolescence in the follow-up, Cherry, those two best sellers stood as proof that this howlingly funny writer had not only survived but also stayed sufficiently clear-eyed to tell her tales. We loved Karr, but we didn't have to worry about her in adulthood. Or so we thought...
...much preferring to translate classical Chinese literature instead," he wrote in his 2002 autobiography, White Tiger. Yang translated works including The Odyssey and Pygmalion into Chinese, and he and his wife collaborated on rendering selections from Sima Qian's Records of the Historian and stories by the 20th century writer Lu Xun into English...
...Staff writer Stephanie B. Garlock can be reached at sgarlock@college.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Ryan D. Smith can be reached at rdsmith@fas.harvard.edu
...Jenny has told me she plans to pursue her interests in the emerging new forms of journalism and the business models that will support it, at The Times and at other news institutions. She also is a successful book author, and plans to continue as a writer and journalist...