Julie Schumacher’s Dear Committee Members


By CONNIE OGLEAGENCY
  • People
  • Tuesday, 05 May 2015

Julie Schumacher admits that she shares a few characteristics with her cranky professor protagonist: ‘He’s sort of an evil twin. Photo: TNS

Novelist Julie Schumacher admits that she shares a few characteristics with Jason T. Fitger, the cranky, boorish professor experiencing a meltdown in her hilarious epistolary novel Dear Committee Members.

“He’s sort of an evil twin,” admits the author, who (like her character) is a faculty member in a US Midwestern university creative writing programme, in her case the University of Minnesota.

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