A Park Avenue Tutor Pens a Tell-All
Newsweek, April, 2006 by Peg Tyre
As an undergraduate at Harvard University, budding novelist Eliot Schrefer thought money didn't matter. Then he became an SAT tutor in New York City and got an education in classes of a different kind. Schrefer, 27, spent three years helping some of Manhattan's richest kids ace the college boards. It wasn't a feel-good type of job, but it did provide him with a regular paycheck (his services cost families up to $25,000) and great material. This month, Schrefer's resulting novel, "Glamorous Disasters" (Simon & Schuster ), is hitting bookstores, and the acutely observed, smoothly written confection promises to do for overprivileged high schoolers what "The Devil Wears Prada" did for snotty fashion editors and "The Nanny Diaries" for Park Avenue moms. Did Schrefer teach drug-addled...
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