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The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern alumna YZ Chin releases ‘Though I Get Home’

April 20, 2018

When YZ Chin (McCormick ’07) was a student at Northwestern, her creative writing professor asked why she frequently wrote about love, but not about sex. She said she hadn’t thought about it, but realized...

Author Leslie Pietrzyk (Weinberg ’83) speaks during the third and final part of the English department’s Return Engagement series. Pietrzyk discussed how losing her late husband, also an NU alumnus, influenced her award-winning book.

Author, NU alum Leslie Pietrzyk explores grief, loss at reading

November 12, 2015

Author Leslie Pietrzyk (Weinberg ’83) discussed how the death of her first husband influenced her award-winning book on grief and loss during a talk Wednesday. Pietrzyk’s book, “This Angel on...

Karen Russell (Weinberg ‘03) was named one of 24 winners of 2013 MacArthur Foundation Fellowships last week. Russell, a fiction writer, is an alumna of Northwestern’s creative writing program.

English profs praise work of former student, MacArthur Fellowship winner

September 30, 2013

Northwestern alumna Karen Russell (Weinberg '03) reached a peak in her writing career earlier this month when she won the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and the professors that taught her...

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