Author: Teresa Carpenter
Bio: Teresa Carpenter, editor of New York Diaries: 1609-2009, is a former senior editor of the Village Voice where her articles on crime and the law won a Pulitzer Prize. She is the best-selling author of four books and lives in New York’s Greenwich Village with her husband, author, Steven Levy, a senior writer at Wired magazine.

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.