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Kaavya Viswanathan
American Literature
Kaavya Viswanathan is an author who, while a Harvard University sophomore, published the novel How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life with Little, Brown and Company after a reported deal worth half a million dollars covering the book and a film. The Harvard Crimson reported that passages in the novel closely resembled those in books by Megan McCafferty. Viswanathan told a television interviewer that she saw the similarities but that they were unconscious and unintentional. The book was pulled from bookstore shelves.
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Publisher Pulls Harvard Student Novel Over Alleged Plagiarism (PBS NewsHour)
Works Attributed: How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life, TranscriptQuote, Works Attributed: How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life, Transcript
Among the hard-charging and overachieving student body at Harvard University, 19-year-old sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan boasted one credential none of her peers could match: a reported half-million-dollar book and movie deal for the first-time author. But now, the book that led to her big payday, "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life," has been pulled from shelves by its publisher, Little, Brown, amid a plagiarism scandal.
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