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Entries from Bostonist tagged with 'gotwild'

November 1, 2006

Sorry, Kathleen Breeden, you're no Kaavya Viswanathan. The Harvard Crimson broke the story last spring that then Harvard College sophomore, now junior, Viswanathan had included some suspiciously similar passages in her book How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life. This week they turned on one of their own and revoked two political cartoons drawn by Kathleen E. Breeden citing apparent plagiarism. The student-run paper cites two instances, including the October......

Continue Reading "One of These Things is Not a Lot Like the Other"

April 26, 2006

Oh it’s been a doozy of a week for Harvard sophomore, Kaavya Viswanathan, since her college paper, the Crimson, first reported that her novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life, is just a bit too similar to author Megan F. McCafferty’s novels. At first, Viswanathan told the media that she had “no idea what they are talking about” and then went about her normal life as a Harvard co-ed. Of......

Continue Reading "Co-Ed Author Still Treading Water"

April 24, 2006

While Bostonist constantly struggles to get you the latest news here in the city, we like to think that we’ve got our act together (somewhat)…that is until we read about someone much younger who has accomplished something that we some day hope to. Last week, we read an article from the A.P. Wire about a Harvard student, Kaavya Viswanathan, who at age 17, signed a two-book deal with publishing house Little, Brown for a reported......

Continue Reading "Harvard Student/Author in Hot Literary Water"

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