"It seemed like there was this public idea of what she was like. "People asking me that question was what compelled me to write a 550-page book," said Sittenfeld. "What is it about Laura Bush that fascinates you so?" Eisenberg asked. Sittenfeld's third novel, American Wife, was based on the life of former First Lady Laura Bush. Despite it being a work of fiction, she joked, "I actually thought he knew me well enough to know that I have all these neuroses." "I had a friend and said, 'I had no idea how neurotic you were,'" Sittenfeld told Eisenberg. Though Sittenfeld attended boarding school, and taught at one for two years before Prep was published, she still says the book is not completely autobiographical. Prep profiles the life of a middle-class student at an elite New England boarding school. If I hadn't written it, I'd still enjoy reading it," Sittenfeld told host Ophira Eisenberg on the stage of the Pageant in St. "There's plenty of horrible things I've written before and since, but I stand by Prep. Ten years later, Sittenfeld thinks the novel still holds up. Louis resident Curtis Sittenfeld is best known for her first novel Prep, which was published when she was only 29.
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