Lea Carpenter
Author, Red, White, Blue
Lea Carpenter graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton and has an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was valedictorian. She is a Contributing Editor at Esquire and has written the screenplay for Mile 22, a film about CIA’s Special Activities Division, directed by Peter Berg and starring Mark Wahlberg and John Malkovich, coming out in July. She is developing Eleven Days for television with Lucy Donnelly (Grey Gardens) and Gideon Raff (Homeland). She lives in New York.
Lea Carpenter’s second novel, Red, White, Blue is a love story wrapped in a novel about what it means to be a spy. It’s a story about a father and daughter, about a marriage, and about unraveling the [...] More
