What can you do with a degree in Classics?

 From the NYT April Fool Favorite Books


            Danny Santiago
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            ‘Famous All Over Town’

This 1983 book about Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles was judged by the 
Times Book Review to be an “honest, steady novel that presents some hard 
cultural realities.” The name on the book jacket, Danny Santiago, lent 
it authenticity, even though there was no accompanying author photo. It 
turns out there was a reason for this: The author was actually Daniel 
Lewis James, the son of a wealthy Kansas businessman who attended 
Andover and Yale, where he majored in classical Greek. He based the 
novel on his experiences as a volunteer working in poor neighborhoods in 
Los Angeles. The revelation of his pseudonym after the book was 
published caused a backlash, to his bewilderment. Friends had warned him 
about using a Latino name. “But I said the pen name is pretty well 
established, with Mark Twain, Rabelais and so many others,” Lewis said. 
“I said nobody's going to be hurt if the book's any good.''


DW