People Who Went To Penn: Elizabeth L Silver
July 30, 2013 at 2:26 pm
Looking for a good book to cram in before your reading list becomes more text books than page turners? Look no further than this Penn grad's debut novel, The Execution of Noa P Singleton.
Like Elizabeth Silver (C'01), the book's title character went to Penn! However unlike Silver, and most Penn students, Noa Singleton happened to drop out and wind up on death row. Some might say she got her degree...in murder! (Sorry, couldn't help ourselves) Most relevant to us, Silver included numerous shoutouts to life on Penn's campus, even VP gets a mention!
After graduating from Penn, Silver did everything from teaching English in Costa Rica to working for publisher in NYC, before becoming a criminal lawyer. Like a true overachieving Penn student, Silver combined her varied interests to create one of the summer's hottest novels. Check out her interview with 34th Street to learn more about one of Penn's newest famous alumni.