He described the writing process as “cathartic” and explained his decision to pen the memoir so soon out of college. By the time he was 26, his book, “A Darker Shade of Crimson: Odyssey of a Harvard Chicano”, had been published. Navarrette left Harvard when he was 23 and decided to write his memoir just one year after graduating.
’89-’90, who arrived in the Yard as one of 35 Mexican Americans in the class of 1989, five years before the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies was founded. “If you write a memoir, particularly at a young age, there has to be something unique about your experience,” says Ruben Navarrette Jr. WHAT KIND OF 25-YEAR-OLD WRITES A MEMOIR? “People are always curious about the place.”Īlthough many such memoirs are not about Harvard per se, the name and place are tied inextricably to the stories, and the memoirists would argue they couldn’t be set anywhere else.
“I’m not sure if I would have been able to write the book and get it published if it didn’t take place at Harvard,” Wurtzel says. “Having a bad depression and getting help and medication happens all over the place, but the specifics are really important,” says Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation, a memoir of her depression that began when she was eleven or twelve and unfolded throughout her undergraduate years. When “An Expensive Education”, a novel by Nick McDonell ’06-’07 came out this summer, Harvard was, once again, fictionalized and seen anew through the eyes of a recent graduate.īut while McDonell explained that his focus was on writing an engaging spy novel rather than on representing the setting where so much of the novel unfolds, a number of young authors who choose to write about Harvard instead decide to incorporate the institution into their own stories.
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