The Opposite of Loneliness

Marina Keegan was born in Wayland, Massachusetts on October 25, 1989. She was a journalist and playwright who won national attention for urging her fellow college students to resist the lure of Wall Street when she helped organize a protest challenging campus recruiting. She graduated from Yale University in 2012 and was going to be an assistant at The New Yorker magazine. She died in a car crash on May 26, 2012 at the age of 22. She wrote a musical with two other students entitled Independents, which was a prize-winning selection in the 2012 New York International Fringe Festival. Her book, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories, was published in 2014.

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