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 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - The rise and crashing fall of the Harvard University sophomore accused of plagiarizing passages of her debut novel has made of some of her classmates smile, some sympathize.
A quiet jealousy circulated on this hyper-competitive campus when Kaavya Viswanathan's hefty two-book deal became public, before allegations surfaced that she cribbed from other teen novels.
On Thursday her publisher, Little, Brown and Co., yanked "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life" off bookstore shelves nationwide.
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