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Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever
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Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever is the bestselling author of thirteen previous books, including five novels and the memoirs Note Found in a Bottle and Home Before Dark. Her work has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Boston Globe Winship Medal. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a member of the Corporation of Yaddo, and a member of the Author's Guild Council. She teaches in the Bennington College M.F.A. program. She lives in New York City with her family.

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Louisa May Alcott will be released on November 08, 2011 in Trade Paperback
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Desire will be released on October 06, 2009 in Trade Paperback
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Denver Post, November 20, 2011
...Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work,by Susan Cheever, $15 5. The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right,...
The Independent, October 6, 2011
...weathered her girlhood better than most daughters of celebrated literary lions. As we know from the memoirs of Susan Cheever, Janna Malamud Smith and Alexandra Styron, growing up under the shadow of an artistic ego can seriously stunt your emotional...
Kirkus Reviews, July 29, 2011
...cultural stereotypes about sex have had on her own writing in “Reticence and Fieldwork,” as well as in Susan Cheever's musings about the appeal of one-night stands in “Sex with a Stranger.” For me, though, the stories that managed to incorporate...
USA Today, June 24, 2011
...by Kelly O'Connor McNees is new in paperback from Berkley. It's a perfect summer read. And Susan Cheever's Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography is out Nov. 8 in paperback from Simon & Schuster. Here's my review. In other news: two more books inspired...
Washington Post, June 3, 2011
...Tweet While Malamud Smith waited nearly two decades after her fathers death to write about him, Styron, like Susan Cheever, wasted no time in addressing her mixed feelings about the man around whom her family performed a delicate dance. Her obliquely...
Los Angeles Times, May 31, 2011
...To be published June 14 by Ecco. With contributions from Susie Bright, Julie Klam, Daphne Merkin, Honor Moore, Susan Cheever and Liz Smith. Liz Smith? "Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life" by Kenneth Gross, coming in October from the University of...
lovelyish's Lovelyish, November 8, 2011
...is incredibly frail to behold, her skinny frame all angles beneath her black ensemble. As she sat down and fellow author Susan Cheever -- the moderator for the night -- introduced herself, I took notice of Didion's lilac pashmina, her packet of papers...
So Many Books, July 26, 2011
...a bit more restrained. The authors range from young to old and include the likes of Fay Weldon, Susan Cheever, Anne Roiphe, Eve Ensler, and Susie Bright. Some of the essays are filled with humor, like Julie Klam describing the experience of her first...
God Writing, July 14, 2011
...Jacqueline loaned me a book entitled Louisa May Alcott, a Personal Biography , by Susan Cheever. I am someone who never read Little Women .  I just couldn’t get into it.  I didn’t as a child. Strange, isn’t it? And I...
The Book Lady's Blog, June 22, 2011
...Because a Book Lady reading round-up wouldn’t be complete without a list of feminist/women’s studies titles. And because there are some really terrific ones out right now. Beginning with this: Sugar in My Bowl: Real Women Write About Real Sex ,...
Largehearted Boy, June 12, 2011
...at my desk. The contributing author list is impressive, with Jong, Susie Bright, Fay Weldon, Min Jin Lee, Susan Cheever and others sharing essays, short stories, and comics. These pieces honestly and thoughtfully explore sex and its role in our society...
Jacket Copy, May 31, 2011
...To be published June 14 by Ecco. With contributions from Susie Bright, Julie Klam, Daphne Merkin, Honor Moore, Susan Cheever and Liz Smith. Liz Smith? "Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life" by Kenneth Gross, coming in October from the University of Chicago...
Jacket Copy, May 31, 2011
...To be published June 14 by Ecco. With contributions from Susie Bright, Julie Klam, Daphne Merkin, Honor Moore, Susan Cheever and Liz Smith. Liz Smith? "Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life" by Kenneth Gross, coming in October from the University of Chicago...