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08/27/06

11:40:58 am, Categories: Fiction News, 376 words

Young Novelist's Plagiarism Scandal with the Threats of Offshore Outsourcing

reported by Cindy Adams, FictionFanatic.com

In the Spring of 2006, Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan was thrust into the limelight as a plagiarist. Her debut novel, "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life," contained dozens of passages which were nearly identical in substance or form to books by several other authors.

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