Marisha Pessl
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October 26, 1977
gender
female
place of birth
Detroit or Clarkston, Michigan, The United States
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Literature & Fiction
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Marisha Pessl, a native of Asheville, North Carolina, graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Magna cum Laude from Barnard College at Columbia University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in English with a minor in Creative Writing (Playwriting). She worked as a Mergers and Acquisitions financial consultant at Pricewaterhouse Coopers and J.P. Morgan while writing her first novel, also appearing in a variety of Off-Off-Broadway plays, including Lolita, Ivanov, and The Importance of Being Earnest. After completing her first novel in London, she presently lives in New York City.
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl avg rating 3.68 — 7,805 ratings — published 2006 21 editions |
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La physique des catastophes by Marisha Pessl avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2007 |
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl, Janice Card avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2007 |
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"But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watch those poor souls in school, in life, heading unwittingly down dangerous tangents, fatal digressions from which they will unlikely be able to emerge. Resist the temptation. Spend your energies on your story. Reworking it. Making it better."
— Marisha Pessl (Special Topics in Calamity Physics)
— Marisha Pessl (Special Topics in Calamity Physics)
"Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world."
— Marisha Pessl (Special Topics in Calamity Physics)
— Marisha Pessl (Special Topics in Calamity Physics)
"Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment."
— Marisha Pessl (Special Topics in Calamity Physics)
— Marisha Pessl (Special Topics in Calamity Physics)
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