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Harriet Scott Chessman

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Occupation
  
novelist,

Name
  
Harriet Chessman


Period
  
1999–present

Nationality
  
American

Role
  
Author

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Notable works
  
Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper, Someone Not Really Her Mother

Books
  
Lydia Cassatt reading t, Someone not really her mother, The public is invited to dance, The Beauty of Ordinary Things, Lydia Cassatt Read Mor

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Harriet Scott Chessman (born January 16, 1951) is an American author of four novels, including Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper, a #1 Booksense Pick, Someone Not Really Her Mother, a Good Morning America book club choice, and The Beauty of Ordinary Things. Chessman's subjects often center on mortality, love, trauma, and the restorative power of art.

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Biography

Harriet Scott Chessman grew up in the Welsh Hills of Ohio. She received her PhD in English from Yale University in 1979, and her B.A. cum laudefrom Wellesley College in 1972. She has taught literature and creative writing at Yale University, Bread Loaf School of English, and Stanford University’s Continuing Studies Program. She lived for twelve years in Palo Alto, California, with her husband Bryan J. Wolf, the Jeannette and William Hayden Jones Professor in American Art and Culture at Stanford University. She now lives in Connecticut.

References

Harriet Scott Chessman Wikipedia