Teresa Carpenter

Teresa Carpenter

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Biography

Teresa Carpenter (born 1948) is a Pulitzer prize winning, bestselling American author. She was born in Independence, Missouri and lives with her husband Steven Levy (senior staff writer Wired magazine and the author of Hackers) in New York's Greenwich Village.

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Awards

Her articles in the Village Voice in the 1980s won the Pulitzer Prize for best feature writing, as well as two Clarion awards, the Page One award, and the Front Page award. Carpenter was awarded the 1981 Pulitzer in Feature Writing for her account of Dorothy Stratten's death after it was revealed that the original winning article, by Janet Cooke of the Washington Post, was a fabrication.

Books

She is the author of four books: Without a Doubt (1997) (with Marcia Clark), a New York Times #1 bestseller, Missing Beauty (1988), a New York Times bestseller, and The Miss Stone Affair (2003). She is also the editor of New York Diaries 1609-2009.

Arlyne Brickman, the Mafia informant and mob moll, was the subject of Carpenter's non-fiction book Mob Girl: A Woman's Life in the Underworld published by Simon & Schuster.

Anthologies

Carpenter's articles have appeared in the following anthologies:

  • Pulitzer Prize Feature Stories, edited by David Garlock
  • Profiles in Courage for our Time, edited by Caroline Kennedy
  • The Village Voice Anthology, edited by Geoffrey Stokes
  • Feature Writing for Newspapers and Magazines, edited by Edward Jay Friedlander and John Lee
  • Excellence in Reporting, edited by Edward Jay Friedlander, Harry Marsh and Mike Masterson.

[ Source: Wikipedia ]


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