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When, at 14, her high school lost accreditation, Mary R. Ziegler left her hometown in Montana for Andover. Once there, she says, she quickly befriended a girl from Indonesia. The only hitch: coming from Montana, Ziegler had no idea where Indonesia...
...makes you totally ignorant about everything else,” the fiction writer says of her native state. Sitting in the Barker Center cafe before an afternoon class, Ziegler holds a notebook filled with scribblings in many inks. She thinks about her writing constantly—with a goal of producing three pages of fiction a day, she has to. And inspiration can strike unexpectedly...
...usually hear something in my head, which makes me sound mentally ill, I realize,” Ziegler reflects...
...Ziegler has spent the last few months working with literary agent Esmond Harmsworth on three drafts of a first novel. She says she based its plot —which centers around the disappearance of its narrator’s mute sister—on a real-life murder trial in her home state...
...Attie is careful to point out that the show does not project an all-Ivy portrait of Washington politics. He highlights Communications Director Toby Ziegler (Richard Schiff), who went to City College, and asserts that an Ivy League degree is not necessary to a successful political career...