Teresa Carpenter is the author of four books, including the bestselling Missing Beauty. She is a former senior editor of the Village Voice, where her articles on crime and the law won a Pulitzer Prize. She lives in Greenwich Village with husband Steven Levy, a senior writer at Wired magazine and author of Hackers, Crypto and Artificial Life. Teresa is currently at work on an anthology of New York diaries for the Modern Library.
Hometown: Independence, Missouri.
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts in English literature, Graceland University; Master of Arts in journalism, University of Missouri-Columbia.
Passionate pursuits: Archery and Chinese cinema.
Pastime: Gardening
Motto: The truth can make people angrier than a lie. Tell it anyway.
Agent, Esther Newberg
International Creative Management