Plagiarism-in-fiction round-up: "Opal" a little red-faced, Brown upside down
Chick lit author Kaavya Viswanathan, whose name we couldn’t pronounced even with a gun in our fishy faces, has copped to plagiarizing part of her first novel – sort of.
Accused of plagiarizing parts of the recently-published “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life” told the New York Times that she had borrowed language from Megan McCafferty’s
books “Sloppy Firsts” and “Second Helpings.”
Per the Times,
“Ms. Viswanathan added, “I wasn’t aware of how much I may have internalized Ms.
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