Carpenter was awarded the 1981 Pulitzer in Feature Writing for her account of model Dorothy Stratten's death, after it was revealed that the original winning article, by Janet Cooke of The Washington Post, was a fabrication.
Carpenter received the 1981 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing for her account of model Dorothy Stratten's death, after it was discovered that the original winning article, by Janet Cooke of The Washington Post, was a fabrication.