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Muriel Cerf
Muriel Cerf (4 June 1950, Paris – 19 May 2012 Anet) was a French novelist and travel writer.
Her first book, "L'Antivoyage", was inspired by her travels in Southeast Asia, and was a major critical success. She was awarded the Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud in 1975 for "Le Diable vert".
Selected works.
- "L'Antivoyage" (1974)
- "Le Diable vert" (1975)
- "Marie Tiefenthaler" (1982)
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son of Muriel (née Gray) and Vinton Thurston Cerf. Cerf attended Van Nuys High School with Jon Postel and Steve Crocker. While in high school, Cerf worked at Rocketdyne on the Apollo program and helped write statistical analysis software for the non-destructive tests of the F-1 engines.
Cerf received a Bachelor's in Science degree in mathematics from Stanford University. After college, Cerf worked at IBM as a systems engineer supporting QUIKTRAN for two years.
He left IBM to attend graduate school at UCLA where he earned