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"A witty and effervescent crossing of the divide between reader and author, full of insight and the fantasy of sitting at the table with great literary figures. Diane Charney offers a delightful chance to connect with literary greats, revealing her feelings from each first encounter to the more mature opinion only time can provide. Mostly the feelings are love, which starts with a love of literature. --Richard Rosenfeld, author of American Aurora An insightful, thought-provoking, moving and beautifully written book. Using the unexpected and refreshing form of ample letters to her admired subjects--from Kafka to Nabokov, Edith Wharton to Colette--and a dozen shorter ""Notes to Women of Note,"" the author interweaves nuanced readings of famous works with ruminations about how these relate to their creators' lives and with her own heartfelt, personal responses. --Vladimir Alexandrov, B. E. Bensinger Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University"

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Diane Joy Charney, PhD, has taught at Yale University for thirty-three years as a Lecturer in French, in Creative Writing, and as Writing Tutor-in-Residence. She studied at University of Rochester, La Sorbonne in Paris from which she was awarded the Diplôme Supérieur d’Études Françaises and received her PhD from Duke University. A lifelong musician (piano, flute, viola), Diane studied at Juilliard and the Eastman School of Music. An enthusiastic chamber musician, she enjoys playing in Yale student orchestras where she tries to hide behind the better players and never play any unintended solos. Among her other passions are yoga, growing her own food, ballet, and tap dance. She has been president of the Center for Independent Study and directed Yale’s Mellon Senior Forum for 25 years. In addition to academic writing, Diane’s writing background includes restaurant and book reviews, and poetry. As a student in Paris, she lived in Jean-Paul Sartre’s childhood apartment. Her PhD thesis was on André Pieyre de Mand

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