August 12, 2008
An English Ph.D. Turns Novelist
With her first novel out in September, a former academic answers questions about leaving academe to write fiction
Most English Ph.D.'s are drawn to graduate study by a love of literature. Some of us harbor a secret desire to write novels instead of just reading them, but the gap between analyzing a novel and actually creating one from scratch is wide.
Joanne Rendell has bridged that gap. Born and raised in Britain, she earned a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of
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