Susan Shreve | |
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Born | Toledo, Ohio, U.S. | May 2, 1939
Occupation | Professor, writer |
Nationality | American |
Education | University of Pennsylvania (BA) University of Virginia (MA) |
Genre | novel, memoir, children's literature |
Susan Shreve (also known as Susan Richards Shreve) is an American novelist, memoirist, and children's book author. She has published fifteen novels, most recently More News Tomorrow (2019), and a memoir Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood (2007).[1] She has also published thirty books for children, most recently The Lovely Shoes (2011), and edited or co-edited five anthologies. Shreve co-founded the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing program at George Mason University in 1980, where she teaches fiction writing. She is the co-founder and the former chairman of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. She lives in Washington, D.C.[2]