Tag: Julie Orringer

  • Nation & World

    The ‘American Schindler’

    Author Julie Orringer’s latest novel, “The Flight Portfolio,” tells the story of Harvard graduate Varian Fry, a journalist and editor sometimes referred to as the “American Schindler,” who worked in France during World War II to help save Jewish members of Europe’s cultural elite from Nazi concentration camps. Orringer worked on the book during a…

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  • Nation & World

    Radcliffe opens doors of discovery

    The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study announced 49 artists and scholars who have been selected as its 2013-2014 fellows, among them are 15 Harvard faculty.

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