Boy Wonder Grows Up, Reflects On Limelight: ; W.Va. Native, Now a Duke Law Professor, Found Fame, Success at Early Age with Book

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Not unlike Hollywood, Washington is a city prone to fussing over the latest bright young thing. The 26-year-old chief speechwriter. The 28-year-old at the helm of a major policy magazine. The home- schooled 24-year-old whose first book provokes a cultural maelstrom.

What happens to these "Wunderkinder" when the fleet of flattering profiles has sailed past?

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Boy Wonder Grows Up, Reflects On Limelight: ; W.Va. Native, Now a Duke Law Professor, Found Fame, Success at Early Age with Book

When we reached him, Jedediah Purdy, now 31, was in his office at Duke University's law school, where he is an assistant professor, counseling a student in the throes of the seemingly inevitable "first-year-of-law-school crisis." In his mid-twenties, though, Purdy was one ...

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