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name: Harriet Scott Chessman
about: Harriet Scott Chessman is happy to announce the upcoming publication of her newest novel, The Lost Sketchbook of Edgar Degas (March 2017, Outpost 19), about Degas' five-month sojourn with his American cousins in New Orleans. Chessman's acclaimed novels include The Beauty of Ordinary Things, Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper, Someone Not Really Her Mother, and Ohio Angels. Her fiction has been translated into eight languages, and featured in The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, NPR’s All Things Considered, and Good Morning America. Chessman has taught English and American literature and creative writing at Yale University, Bread Loaf School of English, and Stanford University's Continuing Studies Program. She is working on Harriet Scott Chessman is happy to announce the upcoming publication of her newest novel, The Lost Sketchbook of Edgar Degas (March 2017, Outpost 19), about Degas' five-month sojourn with his American cousins in New Orleans. Chessman's acclaimed novels include The Beauty of Ordinary Things, Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper, Someone Not Really Her Mother, and Ohio Angels. Her fiction has been translated into eight languages, and featured in The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, NPR’s All Things Considered, and Good Morning America. Chessman has taught English and American literature and creative writing at Yale University, Bread Loaf School of English, and Stanford University's Continuing Studies Program. She is working on new short stories, to go into a story collection, to be titled "Halliday's Treasures" (the name of her story published in the Spring 2016 issue of Catamaran). She is also developing her libretto for MY LAI into a song / poem cycle. She lives now on the Shoreline of Connecticut, after twelve years in Palo Alto, California. ...more