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News from your Yale school.

Jul/Aug 2008

School notes

Yale CollegePeter Salovey, Dean

Student wins writing contest

The Atlantic Monthly has named Jerry Guo ’09 the winner of the nonfiction division of its prestigious

student writing contest. Guo won the prize for a piece he had written in an undergraduate course

taught by essayist and reporter Anne Fadiman, who is the Francis Writer in Residence and adjunct

professor of English. The essay profiled an unusual subject: the man who owns the world's largest

collection of (human) celebrity hair.

Guo credits the prize to his experience in Fadiman's class. Of Fadiman, Guo says, "She spent so

much time on this piece with me that I really couldn't have won the Atlantic competition without her.

She's definitely the best professor I've had at Yale, and a wonderful person."

When he is not attending classes and working as a research assistant for Ian Ayres ’81, ’86JD, the

William K. Townsend Professor of Law, Guo is a freelance writer for the New York Times. This past

May, he traveled to Nepal on assignment as a Leitner Fellow, a fellowship administered by the

Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.

In the 11 years since the Atlantic Monthly inaugurated this contest, five of the first prizes have been

awarded to Yale students. During the past four years, pieces written in nonfiction courses at Yale

have taken three first prizes, and, in the other year, second prize in that contest.

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