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The only person I've met that anyone else might recognize was E.L. Doctorow, who wrote the book Ragtime upon which the musical was based, along with The Book of Daniel and City of God. It wasn't necessarily my most productive meeting with an author that I've had, since I'd just finished reading Daniel and he'd just finished writing City of God so I wanted to talk about the one (that he'd written 50 years ago) and he wanted to talk about the other. So it goes. Either way, it was a pretty impressive and intimate event.
As roachboy would probably attest, the Kelly Writer's House at Penn gives people who know about it some pretty awesome opportunities to meet and talk with fairly high powered local and national authors. I'm not sure what their policies are about attending events if you're not Penn faculty, staff or alumni, but if you're in the Philly area, it's definitely worth checking out.
I also met Ken Kalfus as part of a writing seminar my senior year and, as we shared an interest in Russia and Russian culture, we hit it off pretty well. I probably had a much more interesting and meaningful interaction with him than I did with Doctorow, but he's quite a bit less well known.
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