The Boston Globe, January 2nd, 1997
CAMBRIDGE -- Allegra Goodman cannot suppress a laugh when she recalls the day she went from being a very homesick Harvard freshman to being a professional writer. It is now 11 years since that September when she arrived at Harvard from Hawaii, all alone and never having seen Harvard Yard or Harvard Square or Cambridge before, wearing sandals and carrying two suitcases. Goodman settled in, more or less, finding some slight comfort in the fact that her freshman dorm, Wigglesworth, was where her father had lived. But mostly she remembers "a sense of dislocation." That all changed the very next d...
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