Susan Shreve

Susan Richards Shreve

Susan Shreve (also known as Susan Richards Shreve) is an American novelist, memoirist, and children’s book author. She has published fourteen novels, most recently You Are the Love of My Life (2012), and a memoir Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood (2007). She has also published thirty books for children, most recently The Lovely Shoes (2011), and co-edited five anthologies. Shreve 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-chairman of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. She lives in Washington, DC.[1]

Personal life

Susan Richards was born in Toledo, Ohio, but moved with her family to Washington, DC at the age of three.

She married Porter Shreve, with whom she had four children.[2] Shreve later married noted literary agent Timothy Seldes.[3] Her oldest son is the author Porter Shreve.

Career

Shreve received a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 1961, and an MA in English from the University of Virginia in 1969. She founded the MFA in Creative Writing program at George Mason University in 1980 and has taught there ever since. She has been a visiting professor at Columbia School of the Arts, Princeton University, and Goucher College. She has received a Guggenheim Award for Fiction, a National Endowment grant for Fiction, the Jenny Moore Chair in Creative Writing at George Washington University, the Grub Street Prize for non-fiction, the Poets and Writers’ Service award, and the Sidwell Friends School Outstanding Alumni Award.

Shreve published her first novel, A Fortunate Madness, in 1974.[4] Thirteen novels have followed. A Country of Strangers (1989), "a sweet, sad portrait of two families, one white, one black, living side by side in Virginia during WW II".[5]is under option for film. She published a novel Glimmer under the pseudonym Annie Waters in 1997. [6] Shreve wrote about her experience as a patient at FDR's polio clinic in her memoir Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood (2007). [7] Her most recent novel is You Are the Love of My Life (2012).

Shreve's children's books include the Joshua T. Bates series (1984-2000), Blister (2001), an ALA Notable Book and a Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book, and most recently The Lovely Shoes (2011). When writing for young readers, she publishes as Susan Shreve.[8]


Works

Novels

Memoir

Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven (2007)

Edited Anthologies

Novels for Children (as Susan Shreve)

References

  1. ↑ "Faculty and Staff: Susan R Shreve". English. Retrieved 2016-05-06.
  2. ↑ "Susan Richards (Susan Shreve) Shreve (1939-) Biography - Personal, Addresses, Career, Member, Honors Awards, Writings, Adaptations, Sidelights". biography.jrank.org. Retrieved 2016-06-12.
  3. ↑ Weber, Bruce (2015-12-08). "Timothy Seldes, Agent Who Championed Literary Stars, Dies at 88". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-06-12.
  4. ↑ "A FORTUNATE MADNESS by Susan Richards Shreve | Kirkus Reviews". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2016-06-12.
  5. ↑ "A COUNTRY OF STRANGERS by Susan Richards Shreve | Kirkus Reviews". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2016-06-12.
  6. ↑ Shreve, Susan Richards (2001-08-27). "A Storyteller Finds Comfort in a Cloak of Anonymity". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-06-12.
  7. ↑ "Author Recalls Polio-Stricken Childhood at FDR's Haven". PBS NewsHour. Retrieved 2016-06-12.
  8. ↑ "Susan Shreve's Biography | Scholastic.com". Scholastic Teachers. Retrieved 2016-06-12.

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