Harriet Scott Chessman is the author of the acclaimed novels THE BEAUTY OF ORDINARY THINGS (2013), SOMEONE NOT REALLY HER MOTHER (a 2004 San Francisco Chronicle Best Book, and a Good Morning America Book Club Choice), LYDIA CASSATT READING THE MORNING PAPER (1999), and OHIO ANGELS (1999). She is also the author of the libretto for MY LAI, a contemporary operatic piece commissioned by Kronos Quartet in 2015. She has taught literature and creative writing at Yale University, Bread Loaf School of English, and Stanford University's Continuing Studies Program.
