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Lisa Catherine Harper

Lisa Catherine Harper
Lisa Catherine Harper teaches high school English in Silicon Valley. She is the author of A Double Life, Discovering Motherhood, winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, and co-editor of The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage. Her essays and articles have appeared in Poetry Foundation, Emily Dickinson Journal, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and elsewhere.


What Nathaniel Hawthorne Has To Say to Silicon Valley About Techno-Optimism

Lisa Catherine Harper on the Painfully Enduring Lessons of a Celebrated 19th-Century American Writer
March 13, 2025  By Lisa Catherine Harper
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