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Article: `Nanny Diaries' authors to speak
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- The Beacon News - Aurora (IL)
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- October 3, 2007
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When Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus first met, they had no intention of becoming writers. The two were child development majors at New York University, earning extra money as babysitters for affluent Manhattan families. What they saw in the world of the wealthy shocked them.
"The relationship with the children, from infancy on, did not seem to be highly valued," said McLaughlin.
"And it wasn't just that way with us. It was like that for other NYU students who made extra money as nannies," added Kraus.
But the others didn't write a book about it. McLaughlin and Kraus did. Published in 2002, The Nanny Diaries remained at the top of the New York Times bestseller list longer than any other ...