Elissa schappell biography

          A longtime editor and freelance magazine writer, Elissa Schappell collected ten interrelated stories in her first book, Use Me.

        1. Biography.
        2. Elissa Schappell is an American novelist, short-story writer, editor and essayist.
        3. Elissa Schappell, who spent her formative years in Hockessin, is the author of Blueprints for Building Better Girls and Use Me.
        4. Elissa Schappell is the author of Blueprints for Building Better Girls and Use Me. She is a contributing editor and the Hot Type book columnist at Vanity Fair.

          5. Elissa Schappell is an American novelist, short-story writer, editor and essayist.!

          Elissa Schappell

          American writer and publisher

          Elissa Schappell

          Occupation
          • Novelist
          • short story writer
          • editor
          • essayist
          NationalityAmerican
          EducationNew York University (MFA)
          SpouseRob Spillman

          Elissa Schappell is an American novelist, short-story writer, editor and essayist.

          She was a co-founder and editor of the literary magazine Tin House.

          Writing career

          Schappell graduated from New York University with an MFA in creative writing.[1] Her first job in publishing was with Spy magazine in the 1980s.[2]

          Schappell's first book of fiction, Use Me, a collection of 10 linked short stories, was published in 2000 by William Morrow, and was runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award.[citation needed] A second book of fiction, Blueprints for Building Better Girls, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2011.[3] It was chosen as a "Best Book of the Year" by The San Francisco Chronicle, The Bosto