Harvard sophomore author in plagiarism storm
25th Apr 2006, 21:51 GMT
CAMBRIDGE, Mass - Harvard undergraduate Kaavya Viswanathan, whose maiden novel ''How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life'' made waves a couple of months ago is now in the midst of a plagiarism storm after it was found that her book contained about 13 identical passages from Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings, two coming of age books by Megan McCafferty.
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