Occupation Author, columnist Education Graceland University Spouse Steven Levy | Role Author Name Teresa Carpenter | |
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Born 1948
Independence, Missouri, U.S. ( 1948 ) Alma mater Graceland University (B.A.), University of Missouri-Columbia (M.A.) Genre Non-fiction, true crime Notable awards Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing (1981) Awards Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing Similar People Arlyne Brickman, Steven Levy, Marcia Clark, Dorothy Stratten | ||
Teresa Carpenter (born 1948) is an American author. She was born in Independence, Missouri and lives with her husband Steven Levy 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 model 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: