Teresa Carpenter (1)
Autore di Without a Doubt
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Sull'Autore
Teresa Carpenter writes about true crime. In 1981, as a staff writer for the Village Voice, she won a Pulitzer Prize for her article, "Death of a Playmate," on the brutal murder of Dorothy Stratten, Playboy's 1980 Playmate of the Year. Director Bob Fossee adapted the article for the screenplay to mostra altro the movie "Star 80." Carpenter subsequently wrote Missing Beauty (1988), the true story of the 1978 murder of a twenty-one-year-old Boston woman by a Tuft's University professor, and Mob Girl: A Woman's Life in the Underworld, published in 1992. She collaborated with Marcia Clark in 1997 on Without a Doubt, the first-hand account of Clark's experiences as chief prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Carpenter lives in New York City. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di Teresa Carpenter
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Istruzione
- Graceland University (BA, English literature)
University of Missouri–Columbia School of Journalism (MA) - Attività lavorative
- journalist
author - Relazioni
- Levy, Steven (husband)
- Organizzazioni
- The Village Voice
- Agente
- Esther Newberg
Utenti
Recensioni
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 5
- Utenti
- 721
- Popolarità
- #35,210
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 10
- ISBN
- 152
- Lingue
- 4
Both books start on January 1st and go through December 31st. Each day has diary entries from different people in different years. Famous and not so famous. I love this format! You can turn to any day of the year and see what was happening anywhere from 400 years ago (in the case of New York) or as recently as a year ago (in the case of Los Angeles).
Just like with the Los Angeles book, I found myself intrigued by snippets of New York life, such as:
*Why in the world did women used to weave actual bird nests into their elaborate hairstyles??? Ew.
*President George Washington exercising on his horse.
*Married high society ladies accompanied by their boy toys when out to parties without their husbands.
*Teddy Roosevelt's heartache when his mom and wife died in his arms, hours apart.
*A 10-yo little heiress wanted kid gloves in salmon but was told that color wasn't useful. Then she was given a silk dress but it was the soft kind that doesn't rustle. LOL. She had a green silk dress that she hated so much she was secretly glad when it was splashed by mud from a carriage because the dress could not be cleaned. Another entry finds her walking back and forth on the balcony, crying so much her eyes hurt, because her father wouldn't let her go to the theater with her brother to see the acrobats because Christians shouldn't see such things. Parents crushing childrens' dreams since the 1840s. LOL
Anyway, if you like reading diaries, I highly recommend either or both of those books. In the back are explanations of who each person was and the name of the book if their diaries were published. If they weren't published, it tells you where you can go to see the manuscripts.
I need a book like this for each and every city in the world!!!! If you know of any other cities that have books like this or come across any, please let me know!!… (altro)