Mistakes and Misdemeanors

About the Book

How much can go wrong in your first year of teaching law school? At the beginning of the term, Wendy King, a petite twenty-eight year old, agrees to allow Roger Fragonard to take her class even though it conflicts with another. Roger, surly and disruptive, tests her skills; worse, egged on by a faculty member who's afraid Wendy will interfere with his own tenure, Roger accuses her of sexual harassment. And the chairman of the committee that will decide her fate keeps trying to proposition her. But Wendy defeats her tormentors and ends the year a better teacher and deeper person.

About the Author

Mary F. White grew up in Chicago, graduated from Vanderbilt University and the University of Colorado Law, practiced law in Washington, D.C. and Chicago, and taught legal writing at the University of Michigan. She now lives with her husband in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is the author of the novels Second Families and Forced Blooms.