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...novel boasted a blurb by Nobel Prize winning South African novelist J. M. Coetzee, and quickly began receiving attention. Dovey, whose mother had written one of the first scholarly treatments of Coetzee’s work, called it a “miracle.” Since then, the book has been met with widespread acclaim, and has been published or is awaiting publication in 17 countries. Dovey’s literary success story is an unlikely one. She recalls feeling “sort of blown away” in her undergraduate years by the “Harvard...
...He’s garnered plaudits of all kinds: a MacArthur Genius grant at age 32, Pulitzer finalist status for his novel “John Henry Days,” and a myriad of awards for young authors, including the Young Lions Fiction Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and a Whiting Writers Award. However, for all the attention paid to him within the world of letters, here at Harvard, he might as well be the man Ralph Ellison’s title refers to. As a Harvard undergraduate, Whitehead did not call attention to himself. As he admitted...
David V. Kimel ’05 graduated summa cum laude in Classics. He was half of 2005’s American Parliamentary Debate Team of the Year. And he has also written a children’s book. He seems vaguely aware of the unorthodoxy of his situation. While his debate friends were going off to law school, Kimel taught English in a South Korean steel factory instead. “It was like being in a Charles Dickens book,” he recalls. “It was at that time that I started looking back...
...choice any more clear. “I remember walking into a bookstore and seeing it and thinking, ‘What do I do now?’” he says. Currently a student at Columbia University Medical School, the 26-year-old works on a book about HIV/AIDS in between classes and writes stories on his BlackBerry while on the train. Although he is still unsure about being a doctor, Kincaid, at least, is sure about one thing: “He will still write...
...different,” she says. One of the main characters in “Love Marriage,” the protagonist’s uncle, didn’t even appear in her thesis. “I thought her thesis was wonderful and then I thought her book was wonderful,” Kincaid says, “but she grew as a writer and what she did in the book she couldn’t have done as a student.” Ganeshananthan continues to develop her career, planning to begin a new job as Visiting...