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Princeton University, one of the oldest universities in the United States, has been the subject of numerous aspects of popular culture. The trend accelerated after Princeton was ranked #1 by US News and World Report at the start of the 21st century.〔()〕 ==Literature== *F. Scott Fitzgerald's literary debut, ''This Side of Paradise'', is a loosely autobiographical story of his years at Princeton. A ''Princeton Alumni Weekly''〔(article The Fictive Princeton Novelists have been making the grassy gothic campus the setting of stories – about snobbery, male camaraderie, and now love and sex – for more than a century )〕 on Princeton fiction called it the "ur novel of Princeton life."〔(Barnes & Noble.com - Books: This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paperback, Special Value )〕 *In Ernest Hemingway's ''The Sun Also Rises'', the character Robert Cohn attended Princeton. *Geoffrey Wolff's ''The Final Club'' is a coming-of-age book about Nathaniel Auerbach Clay, a fictional member of the Princeton Class of 1960 (Wolff was an actual member of this class). ''The Final Club'' is written as homage to F. Scott Fitzgerald's ''This Side of Paradise'' and ''The Great Gatsby''. *Princeton plays a large part in the second half of Stephen Fry's ''Making History'', in which the protagonist, Michael Young, attends Princeton. *Mohsin Hamid's ''The Reluctant Fundamentalist'' is partly set at Princeton and the characters Changez and Erica are fictional members of the Princeton Class of 2001. (Hamid was an actual member of the Princeton Class of 1993). *The book ''The Rule of Four'' is set on Princeton's campus and the campus of neighboring Princeton Theological Seminary.〔(Princeton University - 'A Beautiful Mind' opens )〕 *''In Her Shoes'', a novel by Jennifer Weiner '91: Rose Feller is a Princeton grad. Her younger sister Maggie camps out in a Princeton library. *''Watchmen'', a graphic novel created by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins: Dr. Jon Osterman/Doctor Manhattan, born 1929, attended Princeton University from 1948–1958 and graduated with a Ph.D. in atomic physics. *''Admission'', a novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz, is largely set at Princeton and features as its protagonist 38-year-old Portia Nathan, an admissions officer at Princeton University. Korelitz worked as a part-time reader for Princeton's Office of Admission in 2006 and 2007 and is married to Princeton professor Paul Muldoon. *''Humboldt's Gift'' (winner of the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) features Von Humboldt Fleisher who briefly achieves the position of "Chair in Modern Literature" 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Princeton University in popular culture」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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