Can you talk about that, please? Lacy Crawford: John Jacob Astor attended, so did Vanderbilts, Kennedys and Kerrys. Chessy Prout, an alumni, penned a memoir about her experience with the “Senior Salute.” But this school-well-they have a reputation to protect. In fact, an investigation ensued for similar allegations between 1948-1988 and then again in the more recent years. This vile history runs rampant throughout the history of the school. In NOTES ON A SILENCING-a very apt title, by the way-I am struck by the audacity of the school’s response. “(A) studied, vulnerable, and maddening account of her near-undoing and the school’s absolute obstruction of the truth” I was working year after year to help people find their own voice before, in a sense, I could find mine. The college essay is hardly a robust vehicle for that sort of thing, but it’s a rite of passage. But I think it’s interesting that for so many years I had this side gig working with high school students who were trying to tell the truth about their lives. If I can look back at both books, they’re quite different, and come from very different places, of course. Paul’s until I joined the state investigation in 2017 and learned (or had confirmed, really) what had been done to me. I’m always writing, but I had no intention of writing about my experience at St. Can you talk a little more about your inspiration for your writing? Lacy Crawford: Both of your books have academia in common, but really, underneath lies wealth and privilege. We first talked in 2013 about your debut, EARLY DECISION, a novel about the college admission process. Lacy, welcome and thank you so much for chatting about this very personal and heart-wrenching time.
But first, please join me in welcoming Lacy Crawford back to the author interview series: Leslie Lindsay: Let this be a call, a rise to end this abuse. This is a tale about those in power refusing to believe, then shaming, and finally, attempting to silence. I was equally sympathetic and appalled by the tension in the book. I wanted to protect Lacy and the other girls at St. NOTES ON SILENCING stirred so many emotions and gut-wrenching reactions. While there aren’t exactly any answers, we come away from the narrative with a sense of duty: to expose and protect. These are just a few of the questions Lacy grapples with in NOTES ON SILENCING. Now, she’s a mother and wife and writer with questions and worries: why is it okay for the rich and privileged to commit heinous acts and be protected? How can a young woman *not* speak up when something so vile happens to her? How can a smart, hard-working girl find herself in this kind of ‘trouble’ in the first place? And how are we as young women socialized to agree with those in power and authority? Why do we default to the male for answers? Plus, the school had a highly prized reputation to uphold with scores of influential, powerful, and elite alumni. Paul’s was a privilege for Lacy, who worked hard in academics, athletics, and music. Paul’s.Her parents were wealthy, but they hadn’t attended boarding school. It happened, it was cruel, and every attempt to cover-up or ‘sweep it under the rug’ was made. That horrific experience involving two senior athletes and 15-year old Lacy in the boy’s dorm after-hours wasn’t just a figment of her imagination. Lacy’s criminal case is reopened.She sees, for the first time in decades, evidence that corroborates her memories. NOTES ON SILENCING (Little, Brown: July 7 2020) is exactly that–a plea to have one’s tender, vulnerable voice heard. Detectives asked for victims to come forward, and though it had been decades, Lacy threw her hat into the ring.
Paul’s, in New Hampshire was recently underinvestigation following extensive reports of sexual misconduct/abuse on campus, Lacy Crawford thought her past there was behind her. Compelling and haunting memoir of epic proportions of one young woman’s sexual assault, the lies, the cover-ups and fall-outs.
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