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Sophie
Pollitt-Cohen ’09 is the co-author of the book The Notebook Girls
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| Posted 05.16.06 |
Student and Friends Publish The Notebook Girls to Great Acclaim
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 Sophie
Pollitt-Cohen ’09 is co-author of The Notebook Girls by Warner Books. The
book began the journal with her friends, Julia Baskin, Lindsey Newman and
Courtney Toombs at Stuyvesant High School in New York City in 2001.
The journal provided a way for the high school freshmen to stay in touch
despite demanding class schedules, extracurricular activities and busy
social lives.
Formatted as a reproduction of the girls’ journal, the book is stocked with
hand-written notes on lined-notebook paper, doodles and pasted-to-the-page
photographs.
“It can be a lot easier to write something down than to have to admit it in
words,” she says. “We've spent a significant portion of our adolescence
trying to figure out who we are. The notebook is the closest we've come.”
Since the book’s debut April 13, the young authors have been featured in New
York Magazine, OK! Magazine, Vanity Fair, the cover of the Daily News, the
cover of the Los Angeles Times calendar section, the Boston Herald, as well
as on The Today Show, Good Morning America, ABC News Now, Sirius Radio, CNN
Inside Showbiz, the WB11 morning news show, and a few other TV shows as
well.
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| By Olivia Bartlett,
Wesleyan Connection editor |
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