It was no small surprise that Monica Lewinsky today was named a finalist for a National Magazine Award, for her lengthy Vanity Fair essay lamenting the lasting notoriety of her dalliance with President Bill Clinton.
Their clandestine sexual affair began in mid-November 1995, during a partial shutdown of the federal government, and continued intermittently until March 1997. When the affair began, Lewinsky was 22-years-old and nominally a White House intern. Clinton was 27 years her senior.
Her first-person essay in Vanity Fair’s June 2014 issue signaled an end to Lewinsky’s extended, self-imposed seclusion. The essay was solidly written and revealing in places about the agony of unsought celebrity.
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