Tarpley Hitt

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About The Author

Tarpley Hitt is a journalist in New York, New York, where she is an editor at and contributor to The Drift magazine. She has previously reported on culture and money for The Daily Beast and Gawker, and her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Bookforum, The Paris Review, The Guardian, Air Mail, Deseret Magazine, and Miami New Times.  

Books by Tarpley Hitt

Barbieland

The Unauthorized History

By Tarpley Hitt
“Highbrow, brilliant.” —New York magazine

“A rollicking tale of how Mattel spied, copied, and stole its way to market dominance, then fought with military intensity to compel us to buy more and more.” —The New York Times

The secret hist...
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