Teresa Carpenter (born 1948) is an American

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. Her awards include the Pulitzer Prize for best feature writing.

Biography

Teresa Carpenter was born in

Independence, Missouri Independence is the fifth-largest city in Missouri and the county seat of Jackson County, Missouri, Jackson County. Independence is a satellite city of Kansas City, Missouri, and is the largest suburb on the Missouri side of the Kansas City metro ...

. She lives with her husband

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in New York's

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. She is the author of four books: ''Without a Doubt'' (1997) (with

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), 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''.

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, the Mafia informant and mob

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, was the subject of Carpenter's non-fiction book '' Mob Girl: A Woman's Life in the Underworld'' published by

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.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 Carpenter's articles have appeared in several anthologies: *''Pulitzer Prize Feature Stories'', edited by David Garlock *''Profiles in Courage for our Time'', edited by

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*''The Village Voice Anthology'', edited by Geoffrey Stokes *''Feature Writing for Newspapers and Magazines'', edited by Edward Jay Friedlander and

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*''Excellence in Reporting'', edited by Edward Jay Friedlander, Harry Marsh and Mike Masterson.

Awards

Her articles in the ''

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'' in the 1980s won the Pulitzer Prize for best feature writing, as well as two

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s, the Page One award, and the Front Page award. Carpenter was awarded the 1981 Pulitzer in Feature Writing for her account of model

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's death, after it was revealed that the original winning article, by

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of ''

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'', was a fabrication.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Carpenter, Teresa Living people Writers from Independence, Missouri Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing winners The Village Voice people Graceland University alumni University of Missouri alumni 1948 births