The Wife by Meg Wolitzer.  Full disclosure: I didn’t read the book. I saw the movie with Glenn Close.  What an interesting story.  The Glenn Close character is a gifted young writer at Smith.  She falls for her (married) writing teacher, who at this point is young and has one successful book to his credit.  She and her teacher get involved and from then on she writes his books.  The movie action begins with Jonathan Pryce (the successful writer-husband) being awarded a Nobel for his distinguished oeuvre.  Glenn is happy for him until, at the ceremony, he thanks her.  She’s spent decades being taken advantage of and bristles at the public disingenuous display. This unhinges her, their marriage, etc.

Second full disclosure: I watched the movie on a plane. I have a very low bar on planes.  I’ve liked almost every movie that I’ve ever seen on a plane, starting with the Stepford Wives in the 1970s (think 747 with small screen and crappy sound coming from 20 seats in front of mine). Anyhow, Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce were both terrific, as was Stockard Channing who appears briefly as a “lady writer”/Smith Alum whose fabulous poetry is read by no-one, or so she tells Close.