For readers gripped by In Cold Blood and I'll Be Gone in the Dark, We Keep the Dead Close is both a haunting true crime narrative of an unsolved 1969 murder at a prestigious institution and a lyrical memoir of obsession and love for a girl who dreamt of rising among men.
Becky Cooper is a former New Yorker writer, assistant to David Remnick, Adam Gopnik and D.T. Max, producer for the New Yorker Radio Hour. Currently, she is artist-in-residence at Harvard University, as well as Senior Fellow at Brandeis's Schuster Institute for Investigative Reporting. Her undergraduate thesis, a literary biography of David Foster Wallace, won Harvard's Hoopes Prize, the highest undergraduate award for research and writing. In 2013, she published Mapping Manhattan- A Love and Sometimes Hate Story in Maps by 75 New Yorkers (Abrams), which is currently in its fifth printing.
Exhilarating [...] Becky Cooper masterfully uncovers
the story of Harvard undergrad Jane Britton * Vogue *
Exhilarating and seductive ... Haunting, fascinating, and
surprising. Cooper will keep you riveted.
Searching, atmospheric and ultimately entrancing ... A vivid
account of a notorious murder at Harvard, and a meditation on the
stories that we tell ourselves about violence ... With a deft
touch, she interrogates not just the evidence, witnesses and
suspects, but her own biases and assumptions, as well.
Stunning ... This vivid, graceful story is as much about obsession
and a search for belonging as it is about the romance of
exploration, the unglamorous logistics of scientific fieldwork, the
secretiveness of clans, the cruelty of chance, and the doggedness
inherent to the best narrative journalism.
Top drawer investigative reporting. Riveting. A refreshing reason
to sacrifice sleep. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
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