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Kaavya Viswanathan was born in Chennai (formerly Madras) in India and spent her early childhood in the United Kingdom, moving with her parents to the United States when she was in middle school. Her father Viswanathan Rajaraman was a neurosurgeon, and her mother Mary Sundaram was a physician who gave up practicing to raise their daughter. As is sometimes customary among South Indians, Viswanathan took her father's first name as her last name. Intending ultimately to apply to Ivy League universities, Viswanathan participated in an assortment of enrichment programs and extracurricular activities, including summers at the Center for Talented Youth, a Johns Hopkins University program for gifted children, as well as serving as editor in chief of her school newspaper and taking advanced placement courses at her magnet high school, Bergen County Academies in Hackensack, New Jersey. After graduating from Harvard, she attended law school at Georgetown.
On June 20, 2011, both of Viswanathan's parents were killed when their Cirrus SR22 airplane crashed and burned outside Columbus, Ohio.
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