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

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. 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 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'' (1992) 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

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

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, "Jimmy's World", by Janet Cooke of ''

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'', was a fabrication.

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