![]() ![]() Sittenfeld used a recent interview here to talk about the novel and all the ways she is not Lee, her publisher's publicity machine is complicit in the tease. Lee Fiora, according to at least one review, could be the 21st-century Holden Caulfield. 18, and Random House has printed 24,000 more books, adding to the 16,000-copy first run. The 406-page novel, was officially released on Jan. Sittenfeld or her publisher, Random House, really mind. Sittenfeld merely followed the time-honored advice to "write what you know," the question nibbling at her amid the novel's sweet reviews and media attention has been: How much of the first-person book is Curtis and how much is Lee? Sittenfeld is real, a 29-year-old writer whose debut novel, "Prep," stars the fictional Ms. ![]() Curtis Sittenfeld is a Midwesterner who attended an elite Massachusetts boarding school and was tormented by a crush. WASHINGTON - Lee Fiora is an awkward Midwestern scholarship student who is cowed by the academics, the superior blondes and the rich "bank boys" at her elite Massachusetts boarding school, not to mention tormented by a crush. ![]()
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