Alice Winn
An Evening with Alice Winn
Wordfest’s Creative Ringleader Shelley Youngblut has not stopped thinking or raving about Alice Winn’s debut novel, In Memoriam, since she read it over the holiday break last year. The literary world was equally shaken to its core: the painstakingly researched book—which charts the unlikely love story of a pair of teens from their idyllic, privileged private college to the mud and gore of the Somme in the First World War—echoes Brideshead Revisited. It won the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and Novel of the Year in 2023, and was a Good Morning America book pick. So how did a dyslexic, then-30-year-old writer and screenwriter, born in Paris, educated at Marlborough College (the boarding school in her book) and Oxford, now living in Brooklyn, come to create a novel that transcends genre, stigma, and time?
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