Kaavya Viswanathan. Oh my god! I just can't stop reading about this sordid tale. do I feel sorry for the poor little rich girl, angry that she did something so wrong?
Stop me before I google again, but meanwhile, read this from Slate.
My failed fling with a book packager. By John�Barlow: "Half a million! I read it. I said the words out loud. Then I glanced at the sales figures for my own novel, which had just made its spectacular debut on the Lower East Side of the midlist. I felt sick. A 17-year-old high-school student, Kaavya Viswanathan, gets a half-million-dollar advance through a book packager that I also wrote for, doing the self-same thing. Only I didn't get the half mil. Nor the acres of publicity. Then again, neither did I get accused of plagiarism. This is how it happened."