Heartbreaking final essay of Yale graduate, 22, killed in car crash wins Goodreads Choice Awards non-fiction prize as she is hailed as an 'icon of her generation'

A Yale graduate whose life was tragically cut short when she was killed in a car accident (right) shortly after her graduation has just been awarded a prestigious literary prize. Marina Keegan (left) was awarded the Goodreads Choice Awards non-fiction book for 2014 for the posthumously published The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories (inset). This after an essay she wrote for the Yale Daily News went viral following her death, and publishing house Simon & Schuster asked to release a collection of her works.