Susanna Moore
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Susanna Moore | |
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 Moore at the 2007 Brooklyn Book Festival | |
| Born | December 9, 1945 |
| Occupation | Writer, actress, production designer, costume designer |
| Spouse | Richard Sylbert (1973–1978) |
| Children | 1 |
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Susanna Moore (born December 9, 1945) is an American writer.
Moore was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and grew up in Hawaii. Her memoir I Myself Have Seen It: The Myth of Hawaii provides insight into a life in Hawaii.
In 1999, she received the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 2006 she received a Fellowship in Literature at the American Academy in Berlin;[1] and in 2007 she received a Fellowship in Literature from the Asian Cultural Council.
Susanna Moore was visiting lecturer in Creative Writing at Yale University in 1988, 1989 and 1994; visiting lecturer at New York Graduate School in 1995; creative writing teacher at the Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn between 2004 and 2006; and lecturer of creative writing at Princeton University between 2007 and 2009. During May to August 2009, Susanna Moore was Writer-in-Residence at Australia's University of Adelaide.
Moore worked for a while in Los Angeles in the late 1960s as Warren Beatty's assistant.[2]
Publications
Fiction
- My Old Sweetheart (1982)
- The Whiteness of Bones (1989)
- Sleeping Beauties (1993)
- In the Cut (1995)
- One Last Look (2003)
- The Big Girls (2007)
- The Life of Objects (2012)
Non-fiction
- I Myself Have Seen It: The Myth of Hawai‘i (2003)
- Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawai‘i (2015
References
- ^ "Citigroup Fellow, Class of Fall 2006". American Academy in Berlin. Archived from the original on December 30, 2012. Retrieved March 11, 2012.
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External links
- Susanna Moore at IMDb
- Susanna Moore: Women Behind Bars
- Susanna Moore: The Morning News
- Susanna Moore on Amazon
- The New York Times
- Susanna Moore
- Princeton University: Moore, a graceful novelist, pushes students to be daring
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- 1945 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- American memoirists
- American women novelists
- Novelists from Pennsylvania
- Women memoirists
- 20th-century American women writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- American women non-fiction writers
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers