Lea Carpenter: Writing In The Present…And The Past
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Lea Carpenter has had an unlikely and compelling path to becoming a writer of novels about espionage: Princeton and Harvard, working for both Senator Biden and Beau Biden and a 10 year magazine publishing career working for the likes of Francis Ford Coppola and John F. Kennedy Jr. There is a powerful connection in her writing to a subject that was not discussed as she was growing up in Delaware: her father’s work in military intelligence and special operations during World War Two. Add up all of the disparate influences and experiences and you have a novelist who has received some serious acclaim. Toni Morrison called her writing “elegant prose.” The esteemed New York Times reviewer Michiko Kakutani has dubbed Lea Carpenter “an extraordinarily gifted writer.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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