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December 10, 2020
Benjamin Franklin Scholars

Senior Chloe Gong is one of the year's youngest best-selling authors. She wrote the first draft of "These Violent Delights" — a reimagining of “Romeo and Juliet” set in 1920s Shanghai — during the summer after her first year at Penn It is her first published novel, and the ninth one she has written. Read more about Chloe in The New York Times.

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