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...aficionados? Check. Written an article for an outdoors magazine that got made into the summer blockbuster Blue Crush? Waded through alligator-ridden swampwater in search of an elusive “ghost orchid?” And did Meryl Streep play you in Spike Jonze’s Adaptation? Orlean can boast all this and more...
These days, you can find Orlean sitting next to you in class. As a fellow at Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism, she has been auditing classes (last semester she took Wit and Humor, Animals that Talk, and North American Seacoasts and Landscapes...
Sitting in the library of Lippman House, the Nieman Fellow headquarters, Orlean pronounces it “a real pleasant surprise to be back at school.” She wants to branch out and take science or linguistics this semester. “You get here and suddenly you just want to do a million things,” she says quietly but eagerly...
...diminutive Orlean’s career. Although she got her start profiling 80s pop sensations like Tiffany for Rolling Stone and Vogue, she eventually realized that it wasn’t for her. “I’m just not that interested in celebrities,” Orlean admits. Instead she turned to the kind of subjects that are “not at all expected”—and found her niche...
After writing about plants in her acclaimed book, The Orchid Thief, Orlean has moved on to animals, penning a piece on Keiko, the whale from Free Willy, for the New Yorker. She also interviewed a woman in New Jersey who kept close to 30 pet tigers. “People have an appetite for exotic things—it’s kind of an enduring issue in human nature.” Both accounts are collected in her new book, Homewrecker: Travel Stories from a Woman Who’s Been Everywhere, which will come out in November...