Biographies: Lea Carpenter - Writer

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An American writer, who grew up in Wilmington, Delaware. She is one of six children born to parents Carroll M. Carpenter and Edmund N. Carpenter II. She graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with a degree in English and received her MBA from Harvard University in 2003. She worked in literary publishing for ten years and was a founding editor of Francis Ford Coppola's literary magazine. Lea also worked on John F. Kennedy Jr.'s George magazine. From 2004 to 2005, she was the deputy publisher of The Paris Review. Carpenter was also the managing editor of Lipper/Atlas publishers. She is best known for Mile 22 (2018).

• 1 November 2022
• Toqa Hesham