Susan Shreve

Susan Shreve
File:Susanshreve001.JPG Susan Shreve at 2012 Fall for the Book
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.

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. 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