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Elissa Schappell
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Her first book of fiction, Use Maine a collection of ten linked short stories, was published in 2000 by William Morrow, and was runner up for the Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association/Hemingway Award. She was previously a Senior Editor at The Paris Review Schappell has co-edited two anthologies of essays The Friend Who Got Away, published in 2005 by Doubleday and Money Changes Everything, published in 2007 by Doubleday. She is a Contributing-editor at Vanity Fair, and author of the "Hot Type" book column.
A second book of fiction, Blueprints for Building Better Girls, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2011.
lieutenant was chosen as a "Best Book of the Year" by The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal. Newsweek/The Daily Beast, and O Magazine.
She teaches at schools including Columbia University, New York University, and Queens University. Originally from Delaware, she now lives in Brooklyn with her family.
She graduated from New York University with an Master of Fine Arts in creative writing.
Her first career work was for Spy magazine in the 1980s, under founding editor East. Graydon Carter and Kurt Andersen. She has contributed articles to magazines such as Gentlemen’s Quarterly, Vogue and Spin. Her fiction, interviews and essays have appeared in such places as BOMB, One Story, Nerve, The Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) Bar Reader, The Paris Review: Beat Writers at Work, The Mrs Dalloway Reader, The Bitch in the House, Cooking and Stealing, Bound to Last, Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting (West West Norton & Company, 2013).
She has written book reviews for the New York Times, BookForum, and The London Daily Telegraph.
