Wendy Lichtman

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Wendy Lichtman writes personal essays for the Washington Post, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Good Housekeeping, among other national publications. She holds a degree in mathematics and has tutored public-school students in algebra for the past several years. When she decided to write about a teen realizing that some questions have more than one right answer, algebra, with its unknowns and variables, seemed a perfect metaphor. Wendy Lichtman lives in Berkeley, California. (from the publisher's website)" ...more

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“Talk about getting off tangent. My mother's friend may have just killed his wife and my parents are sitting there talking about cows.”
Wendy Lichtman, Secrets, Lies, and Algebra
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“[Graffiti] gets erased and painted over, and maybe it's even more beautiful because we know it won't last.”
Wendy Lichtman, The Writing on the Wall

“He doesn't seem to mind at all that he's stupid about math.”
Wendy Lichtman, Secrets, Lies, and Algebra

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