Deidre Woollard has written for AOL.com, Realtor.com, JustLuxe.com, Pursuitist.com and more. She is the Community Manager for the Realtor.com Advice platform. and teaches in the University of California Irvine Extension Digital Journalism Program.
Jon Corzine would make a fascinating novel character, a smart, powerful man, ambitious but full of hubris. A connected person, a risktaker, full of contradiction—both civic-minded and money hungry. After this latest debacle and the failure of his fund, where woud a novelist take this character? On a redemption journey? On a personal quest? Could he be understood, could he be loved? Business rarely takes motive into its figuring but fiction always does.