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American author
Teresa Carpenter
(born 1948) is an American
author
. Her awards include the Pulitzer Prize for best feature writing.
Biography
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Teresa Carpenter was born in
Independence, Missouri
. She lives with her husband
Steven Levy
in New York's
Greenwich Village
.
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
.
[
citation needed
]
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
(1992) published by
Simon & Schuster
.
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Carpenter's articles have appeared in several 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.
Awards
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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 model
Dorothy Stratten
's death, after it was revealed that the original winning article, "Jimmy's World", by
Janet Cooke
of
The Washington Post
, was a fabrication.
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References
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- ^
a
b
"About Teresa [Carpenter]"
. Retrieved
21 May
2014
.
- ^
Diane Cole,
"In Love With Crime. The Sad, Brutal Story Of A Woman Who Fell For The Mob"
, review in
The Chicago Tribune
, March 22, 1992
- Susan Campbell,
"Mob Girl's Story Falls Short Of Why"
, review in
The Courant
, March 8, 1992
- Leah Rozen,
"Accessory During the Fact :
MOB GIRL: A Woman's Life in the Underworld
"
, review in
The Los Angeles Times
, March 15, 1992
- ^
"1981 Winners and Finalists"
. pulitzer.org
. Retrieved
21 May
2014
.
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