YA novel plagiarism scandal
Posted on | April 25, 2006 | 3 Comments
Chicken Spaghetti points to a couple blogs that are commenting on the similarities between Kaavya Viswanathan’s How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got A Life and Megan McCafferty’s books Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings. I haven’t read Viswanathan’s book. This story was on my mind when I went to the public library today, so I walked by the YA section and was delighted to see that both of McCafferty’s books were available. I’ll be reading them soon.
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April 27th, 2006 @ 8:24 pm
A few articles from my local paper about this:
The initial report
Viswanathan says plagiarism was unintentional
McCafferty’s publisher respondsViswanathan’s response to response
(If I messed up the html, the articles can be found by going to http://www.northjersey.com and searching for viswanathan.)
April 27th, 2006 @ 8:30 pm
I seem to have completely messed that up. The search I listed should work, though. The article from April 25 is probably the one of the most interest, since it includes examples of the similar passages.
April 27th, 2006 @ 8:54 pm
Hi Kevin, thanks for the links. I think I fixed the problem in the html code. I just read that they are pulling Viswanathan’s book from the stores.