About the Author
Lisa Genova was born November 22, 1970 in Waltham, Massachusetts. Genova earned her Bachelor of Science in biopsychology from Bates College, followed by a PhD in neuroscience from Harvard University in 1998. Genova has conducted research at Massachusetts General Hospital and Yale Medical School. Genova self-published her first novel, Still Alice, in 2007. It was later picked up by Simon & Schuster and adapted into an Oscar-winning movie starring Julianne Moore and Alec Baldwin. In 2015, Genova was awarded the Pell Center Prize for Story in the Public Square and a number of other awards and recognitions, primarily for her work in raising awareness of Alzheimer’s disease and the importance of early detection. Genova has since published four other books and currently lives with her children in Massachusetts.
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Dr. Alice Howland is a distinguished tenured professor of psycholinguistics at Harvard University. Her husband, John, is also a tenured professor at Harvard and frequently spends long hours at his...
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