Elissa Schappell

Elissa Schappell (born before 1970) is an American novelist , storyteller , essayist and editor .

Life

Schappell graduated from New York University with a Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing. At the beginning of her career she worked for Spy Magazine in the 1980s under its founder and publisher E. Graydon Carter . She has published articles in magazines such as GQ , Vogue and Spin . Her novels, interviews and essays have appeared in such media as BOMB , One Story , Nerve , The KGB Bar Reader , The Paris Review , The Mrs Dalloway Reader , The Bitch in the House , and Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting ( WW Norton & Co , 2013). She also received book reviews for the New York Times. Schappell lives with her family in Brooklyn , New York City .

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Her first book Use Me , a collection of ten linked short stories , was published by William Morrow & Company in 2000 and was a finalist for the PEN / Hemingway Award . She is the co-founder of the literary magazine Tin House and Senior Editor. Previously, she was Senior Editor for The Paris Review . Schappell is with Jenny Offill editor of two essay - anthologies , The Friend Who Got Away laid in 2005 by Doubleday and Money Changes Everything , in 2007, also at Doubleday published. She is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair , and author of the "Hot Type" column. A second novel, Blueprints for Building Better Girls , was published by Simon & Schuster in 2011.

Publications

2000: Use Me , Elissa Schappell, William Morrow & Company, 2000, ISBN 978-0-688-16557-4
- 2001: Evie: ten stanzas of a life , Elissa Schappell, fiction, Europa-Verlag, Hamburg, Vienna, 2001, ISBN 3-203-82034-X
2011: Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction , Elissa Schappell, Belletristik, Simon & Schuster, 2011, ISBN 978-0-7432-7670-2

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Creative Writing Program - Elissa Schappell . New York University. Retrieved November 22, 2011.
^ 'Prep': Blue Blazers and Lacrosse . New York Times. January 16, 2005. Retrieved November 22, 2011.
↑ Brief description on the back of Blueprints better girls: Fiction
↑ Vanity Fair - Elissa Schappell . Vanity Fair. Retrieved November 22, 2011.

personal data
SURNAME	Schappell, Elissa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American novelist, storyteller, essayist and editor
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1970

[1] Creative Writing Program - Elissa Schappell . New York University. Retrieved November 22, 2011.

[2] 'Prep': Blue Blazers and Lacrosse . New York Times. January 16, 2005. Retrieved November 22, 2011.

[3] Brief description on the back of Blueprints better girls: Fiction

[4] Vanity Fair - Elissa Schappell . Vanity Fair. Retrieved November 22, 2011.