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Lea Carpenter


Born
Wilmington, Delaware, The United States

Lea Carpenter is an American novelist, screenwriter, and former literary editor. She is the author of three novels: Eleven Days (2013), which was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction; Red, White, Blue (2018); and Ilium (2024). Before becoming a novelist, Carpenter spent a decade working in literary publishing, including as a founding editor of Zoetrope and deputy publisher of The Paris Review. She also co-wrote the screenplay for the 2018 film Mile 22. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School, she is a lecturer at Columbia Law School and lives in New York. ...more

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Average rating: 3.52 · 4,147 ratings · 631 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors
Ilium
3.63 avg rating — 2,408 ratings — published 2024 — 8 editions
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Eleven Days
3.69 avg rating — 960 ratings — published 2013 — 15 editions
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3.01 avg rating — 806 ratings — published 2018 — 9 editions
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“Ilium was a scriptural reference to the biblical idea that there is a “time to kill.”
― Lea Carpenter, Ilium
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“And when that happened, I was ready. I had learned to rely almost entirely on my imagination, which was active, for entertainment and pleasure.”
― Lea Carpenter, Ilium
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“Eventually I understood that enlightenment for him was being at peace with internal conflict.”
― Lea Carpenter, Red, White, Blue
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