Teresa Carpenter is a
Pulitzer prizeThe Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by Hungarian-American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City....
winning, bestselling American
authorAn author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created...
. She was born in
Independence, MissouriIndependence is the fourth largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri, and is contained within the counties of Jackson and Clay. It is part of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The city had a total population of 110,440 in 2008, and is the 224th largest city in the United States...
, and lives with her husband
Steven LevySteven Levy is an American journalist who has written several books on computers, technology, cryptography, the Internet, cybersecurity, and privacy.-Career:...
(
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columnist and author of
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) in New York's
Greenwich VillageGreenwich Village , often simply called "the Village", is a largely residential neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City. A large majority of the district is home to upper middle class families. Greenwich Village, however, was known in the late 19th – earlier to mid 20th...
.
Teresa Carpenter is a
Pulitzer prizeThe Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by Hungarian-American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City....
winning, bestselling American
authorAn author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created...
. She was born in
Independence, MissouriIndependence is the fourth largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri, and is contained within the counties of Jackson and Clay. It is part of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The city had a total population of 110,440 in 2008, and is the 224th largest city in the United States...
, and lives with her husband
Steven LevySteven Levy is an American journalist who has written several books on computers, technology, cryptography, the Internet, cybersecurity, and privacy.-Career:...
(
NewsweekNewsweek is an American weekly newsmagazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
columnist and author of
HackersHackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution is a book by Steven Levy about hacker culture. It was published in 1984 in Garden City, New York by Anchor Press/Doubleday...
) in New York's
Greenwich VillageGreenwich Village , often simply called "the Village", is a largely residential neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City. A large majority of the district is home to upper middle class families. Greenwich Village, however, was known in the late 19th – earlier to mid 20th...
.
Awards
Her articles in the Village Voice in the 1980s won the Pulitzer Prize for best feature writing, as well as two
Clarion awardThe Clarion Award is an American award for excellence in communications. It is administered by the Association for Women in Communications, but both men and women are eligible. It was started in 1972....
s, the Page One award, and the Front Page award. Carpenter was awarded the 1981 Pulitzer in Feature Writing after it was revealed the original winner
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fabricated an article.
Books
She is author of four books:
Without a Doubt (1997) (with
Marcia ClarkMarcia Rachel Clark is a former prosecutor for the State of California, County of Los Angeles, in the O.J. Simpson murder case along with Christopher Darden. With Teresa Carpenter, she authored a book, Without a Doubt, about the case, in a deal reported to be worth $4.2 million...
), a
New York Times #1 bestsellerThe New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered to be the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States. It is published weekly in the The New York Times Book Review magazine, which is usually found inserted in the Sunday edition of The New York Times, or as a stand-alone...
;
Missing Beauty (1988), a New York Times bestseller;
Mob Girl (1992); and
The Miss Stone Affair (2003).
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 KennedyCaroline Bouvier Kennedy is an American author and attorney. She is a member of the influential Kennedy family and the only surviving child of U.S. President John F...
;
The Village Voice Anthology, edited by Geoffrey Stokes;
Feature Writing for Newspapers and Magazines, edited by Edward Jay Friedlander and
John LeeJohn Lee is the name of:Politicians and government officials:*John Lee, Baron Lee of Trafford, former Minister and Conservative Member of Parliament for Pendle from 1979–1992...
;and
Excellence in Reporting, edited by Edward Jay Friedlander, Harry Marsh, and Mike Masterson.
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