Lea Carpenter

Carpenter's new novel is Red, White, Blue. She is developing her first book, Eleven Days, for television. Carpenter lives in New York.

Recent Articles

'Desire Is Always Evolving.' What the 'Three Women' Author Learned After a Decade Following Women's Sex Lives

For her debut book, Three Women, Lisa Taddeo listened to her subjects’ stories over a period of eight years. She recorded their histories of sex, love, loss, abuse. The book’s brilliance is in making new...

By Lea Carpenter

A Writer Followed 3 Women's Sex Lives for Nearly a Decade. The Result Is a Compelling Portrait of Desire

“Express yourself, don’t repress yourself/ Express yourself, don’t repress yourself.” The opening lines from Madonna’s song “Human Nature” are pretty simple. And yet when it was released in 1995, the song wasn’t just a song;...

By Lea Carpenter

A Reunion: Discovering My Father's World War II Heroism

In the hall outside his study in our house in Wilmington, Delaware, my father had hung a small framed photograph, a group of old men on a bench wearing baseball caps. I had never asked...

By Lea Carpenter
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