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Novelist Maggie Shipstead and "Great Circle"

It may seem odd that Maggie Shipstead ’05, whose third novel,
Great Circle, arrives this spring, didn’t grow up wanting to be a writer. The current Los Angeles resident born in Orange County, but peripatetic for a few years in-between remembers reading as having a more prominent role in her life than writing. Her mother, she says, sometimes suggested otherwise, “Like, ‘Well, maybe…you’ll be a writer one day,’ and I was really resistant to that idea.”
Harvard was a clearer path: her father attended the College, and her mother the Graduate School of Education. Shipstead says she entered as an “aggressive” high-school graduate, but the environment caused some culture shock. She started two days after 9/11, and still recalls the palpable sorrow hanging over fellow students, many of them East Coasters. With time, she learned to temper her competitiveness and immerse herself in the academic experience. “My freshman year I got a B, and I’d never gotten ev ....

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