![]() ![]() ![]() But the book’s release wasn’t the end for Watts or this project. It was anywhere but in those offices that Watts found herself writing the novel Sarah Jessica Parker would select as the first book for her national book club.Īfter roughly seven years of writing, the Lehigh English professor released her first novel, “No One Is Coming to Save Us,” on April 4. She has two quiet offices, one located on the third floor of Lehigh’s Drown Hall and another in her Allentown home, but these exist only for the mundane tasks of grading assignments and paying bills. The surrounding ambient noise does not disturb but instead stimulates her as she works. (Courtesy of Lehigh University website)Īmid the soft conversations between strangers in a coffee shop or the rumbling of squeaky grocery carts created by customers rushing through Wegmans, Stephanie Powell Watts types away at her computer. The novel is a loose retelling of “The Great Gatsby” set in a North Carolina factory town. ![]() Stephanie Powell Watts, a professor of English at Lehigh, released her first novel “No one is coming to save us” on April 4 2017. ![]()
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