Susan Orlean
Even after she had seven books to her credit (and was the subject of a movie starring Meryl Streep), Susan Orlean endured a piece of familiar fatherly advice: go to law school, in case writing ?didn’t work out.? Practical but always optimistic, her father came of age during the Great Depression. Orlean thinks she could use some of his can-do attitude now.
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