Francesca Serritella, GHOSTS OF HARVARD: A Novel

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Francesca Serritella joins Zibby to discuss her debut novel, Ghosts of Harvard, which was inspired by a real death that occurred during Francesca's first year of undergrad. The two talk about what she did to capture the emotions of going away to college with a darker twist, the role Harvard played in this story and in history, and the influence that Francesca's mother — author Lisa Scottoline — has had on her personal and professional developments.

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0:41.4	Francesca Saratella is the author of Ghosts of Harvard, a novel.
0:45.4	She is a New York Times best-selling author and columnist who grew up in the Philadelphia area
0:49.5	and graduated cum laude from Harvard University, where she won multiple awards for her creative writing,
0:55.2	including the Charles Edmund Horman Prize and Liberon Russell Briggs Prize.
1:00.0	Her senior thesis and novella was awarded highest honors and won the Thomas T. Hoops Prize.
1:05.6	She also performed in choir and musical theater, in particular, the Harvard, Radcliffe, Gilbert, and Sullivan Society Productions, because she was very cool. By the way, I auditioned for a Gilbert
1:15.3	and Sullivan play in seventh grade and was cast as a statue. But anyway, upon graduation,
1:21.4	Francesca moved to New York City with a suitcase and a puppy. The puppy was her happiness
1:25.7	insurance, and it worked. She began writing and researching
1:28.3	her first novel, Ghosts of Harvard. While working on the novel, she also co-authored a best-selling
1:33.3	nine-book series of essay collections with her mother, best-selling author Lisa Scott Alini,
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