{"id":32360,"date":"2012-05-29T10:32:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T14:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=32360"},"modified":"2012-05-29T12:48:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T16:48:22","slug":"in-memoriam-marina-keegan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/29\/in-memoriam-marina-keegan\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Marina Keegan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is with deep sadness that we note the death of our reader Marina Keegan.<\/p>\n<p>Marina graduated last week from Yale, where she was a finalist for the Wallace Prize in creative writing, a leader of the Occupy Morgan Stanley protest, and a staff writer for the <em>Yale Daily News<\/em>. One of her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yaledailynews.com\/news\/2011\/sep\/30\/even-artichokes-have-doubts\/\">most popular articles<\/a>, on the path from Yale to Wall Street, earned her a guest column in <em>The New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/dealbook.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/29\/marina-keegan-student-journalist-who-took-on-wall-st-dies-at-22\/\">Dealbook<\/a>. A musical she wrote, <em>Independents<\/em>, is set to be performed this summer at the New York Fringe Festival.<\/p>\n<p>She died Saturday afternoon in a car accident at the age of twenty-two.<\/p>\n<p>Marina came to the <em>Review <\/em>recommended by her classmates, who described her as the star writer of their class. She was funny, self-assured, blazingly bright, full of mature dedication, and passionate for life. 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