Tupelo Hassman

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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.

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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]

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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.