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Lynne Kaufman's New Novel Mixes Oxford With Intrigue

The Ingleside resident's fifth novel draws on her 25 years of experience running UC Berkeley’s Oxford Scholars Program.

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Playwright and author Lynne Kaufman with "The Oxford Affair." | Anne Marie Kristoff/Ingleside Light
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Everyday People features the people who make the greater Ingleside neighborhood a special part of San Francisco.

San Francisco playwright and author Lynne Kaufman is taking a spin in the murder-mystery romance genre with her new novel, “The Oxford Affair.”

Writing has been just a hobby for Kaufman until she entered a master’s program in English Literature at Columbia, and took a writing workshop at the UC Berkeley Extension. Since then, the Ingleside Terraces resident has written over 20 plays, many of which have been produced nationally, and now five novels.

“Writing, it's a great way to know what you think,” Kaufman said. “There's a kind of aspect of your mind and specificity and language that it's challenging and frustrating, but it's so rewarding.”

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