Tupelo Hassman

Tupelo Hassman
OccupationAuthor
NationalityAmerican
EducationColumbia University
Notable awardsAlex Award

Tupelo Hassman is an American author.

She has published stories and articles in publications including Harper's Bazaar,[1] The Independent,[2] The New York Times,[3] and The Paris Review Daily,[4] among others.

Hassman has a Masters of Fine Arts from Columbia University.[5]

Works

Her debut novel Girlchild was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2012.[6] The book is about a girl named Rory Dawn Hendrix who is growing up in a trailer park and reads the Girl Scout Handbook for advice.[7] It won an Alex Award in 2013.[8]

Hassman's second novel is gods with a little g (2019).[9]

References

  1. ^ "Ready or Knot", Harper's Bazaar, October 4, 2012.
  2. ^ "Five-minute memoir: Tupelo Hassman on the surprise healing power of a pocket shrine", The Independent, September 1, 2012.
  3. ^ "A Body in the Snow", The New York Times, February 28, 2014.
  4. ^ "Second Chances", The Paris Review Daily, February 13, 2013.
  5. ^ "When Gamblers and Readers Get Together, Anything Can Happen: A Q&A with Tupelo Hassman", Publishers Weekly, Gabe Habash, February 10, 2012.
  6. ^ "Girlchild, Publishers Weekly, 12/12/2011.
  7. ^ "The Perils of Coming of Age in a Trailer Park", Susannah Meadows, The New York Times, March 1, 2012.
  8. ^ "Alex Awards 2013 | Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)". ala.org. Retrieved 2014-10-08.
  9. ^ "gods with a little g". Macmillan Publishers. Retrieved 28 March 2018.


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