Elisabeth H. Daugherty

‘Is there energy in your life for obsession? Because if you’re going to write a book, you better be obsessed’

‘I think my recognition speaks less to me as somehow exceptional or special and more to the tireless, patient, endlessly generous work of everyone in my department and in my...

‘I wanted to make it very real in our discussion of how sometimes cooking is hard and sometimes also cooking can make life feel less hard’

‘There’s a kind of power when you dare to inhabit the first person with unvarnished vulnerability and honesty’

‘The biggest takeaway from Desi’s story for me is that talent in our country comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and sometimes in the most unlikely packages’

‘At what point does life become music, become sound, become music, become life?’

‘I hope that students take away kind of an ethos of care towards each other’

‘Some Princeton students have reached out saying that they really identified with the characters, especially multiracial young women, and that meant so much to me’