Harriet Scott Chessman



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Harriet Scott Chessman is the author of three acclaimed novels: Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper, published in eight foreign countries, and a #1 Booksense Pick; Someone Not Really Her Mother, a Good Morning America book club choice and one of the San Francisco Chronicle's Best Books; and Ohio Angels, her first novel, which has been called "poetic and moving," "a lyrical debut.”

Harriet is also a poet and a writer of short stories and children’s stories, a manuscript consultant and editor, a dog-and-cat-lover, a teacher, a sociable hermit, a mother, a laundry-doer, a dreamer, an aficionado of art and theater, and of course, a reader.     


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Harriet offers various forms of consultation and editing for writers across a wide spectrum of genres, including fiction, personal essays, journalistic essays, memoir, and children’s books. Learn more

Guest Blog Posts:


“Walking Through the Hedge” – an essay on Meg Waite Clayton’s site, 1st Books: Stories about How Writers Get Started.

"Two Achilles Heels" and "I Love All Things Irish" — blog on The Well-Read Donkey, Kepler's Bookstore:

"My Life as a Writer"



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