Alum Selby Wynn Schwarz (Ph.D. '03) long-listed for Booker Prize for debut novel "After Sappho"

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August 22, 2022

"What if the centre of history were occupied by what women thought about?"

Selby Wynn Schwartz, author of After Sappho, talks about the influence of Virginia Woolf, writing in the first-person plural and reading ravenously. Schwartz received her Ph.D. in comparative literature at UC Berkeley in 2003.

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