Teresa Carpenter is a Pulitzer prize

Pulitzer Prize

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 winning, bestselling American author

Author

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. She was born in Independence, Missouri

Independence, Missouri

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, and lives with her husband Steven Levy

Steven Levy

Steven Levy is an American journalist who has written several books on computers, technology, cryptography, the Internet, cybersecurity, and privacy.-Career:...

 (Newsweek

Newsweek

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 columnist and author of Hackers

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

Hackers: 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 Village

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 after it was revealed the original winner Janet Cooke

Janet Cooke

Janet Leslie Cooke is an American former journalist who became infamous when it was discovered that a Pulitzer Prize–winning story that she had written for The Washington Post had been fabricated.-Early career:...

 fabricated an article.

Books

She is author of four books: Without a Doubt (1997) (with Marcia Clark

Marcia Clark

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), a New York Times #1 bestseller

New York Times Best Seller list

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; 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 Kennedy

Caroline Kennedy

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; The Village Voice Anthology, edited by Geoffrey Stokes; Feature Writing for Newspapers and Magazines, edited by Edward Jay Friedlander and John Lee

John Lee

- Politicians and government officials :*John Lee, Baron Lee of Trafford , former Minister and Conservative Member of Parliament for Pendle, 1979–1992...

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

External links

• Teresa Carpenter home page