Susan Shreve
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Occupation | novelist, professor |
Nationality | American |
Education | University of Pennsylvania; University of Virginia |
Susan Richards Shreve is an American author, and novelist, as well as author of over a dozen children's books. She teaches at George Mason University.[1]
Life
Shreve was educated at the University of Pennsylvania as well as the University of Virginia. She has also taught at George Washington University, Bennington College, and Princeton.[2] She briefly served as an essayist on The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.
As a writer, her works often center around the integrity of characters; with the choices they make when confronting adversity. Her book Daughters of the New World inspired a television miniseries A Will of Their Own. The program used no lines from her novel, and was critically panned. She has since stated that one of her most well-acclaimed books, A Country of Strangers, would never be made into a Hollywood movie. Lucy Forever and Miss Rosetree, Shrinks received an Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery.
She has four grown children, one of whom, Porter Shreve, is also a published author. Shreve lives in Washington, DC. She is the writer of several series, including "Joshua T. Bates".
Works
- You Are the Love of My Life: A Novel, W. W. Norton & Company, 2012, ISBN 9780393082807
- The Lovely Shoes, Scholastic Inc., 2011, ISBN 9780439680493
- Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007, ISBN 9780618658534
- The Train Home, Nan A. Talese, 1993, ISBN 9780385423571
- The Bad Dreams of a Good Girl, Harpercollins Children's Books, 1993, ISBN 9780688121136
- Daughters of the New World N.A. Talese/Doubleday, 1992, ISBN 9780385267960
- A Country of Strangers, Anchor Books, 1990, ISBN 9780385267755
- Lucy Forever and Miss Rosetree, Shrinks (1987); Knopf, 1988, ISBN 9780394805702; Beech Tree Books, 1996, ISBN 9780688149581
- Queen of hearts: a novel, Simon and Schuster, 1986, ISBN 9780671601027
- A fortunate madness, Houghton Mifflin, 1974, ISBN 9780395185001
References
External links
- "Post Magazine: Go Ask Your Mother". www.washingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2008-11-26.
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- American women novelists
- American children's writers
- Edgar Award winners
- University of Pennsylvania alumni
- University of Virginia alumni
- George Mason University faculty
- Living people
- Guggenheim Fellows
- Women children's writers
- 20th-century women writers
- 21st-century women writers
- American novelist stubs