Susan Minot

Susan Minot (rhymes with “Sign-it”) is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, playwright and screenwriter. Her first novel Monkeys (1986) was published in a dozen countries and won the Prix Femina Étranger in France. She wrote the screenplay for Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Stealing Beauty” (1995). Her novel Evening, nominated for the LA Book Award, was a worldwide bestseller and became a major motion picture in 2007. Her stories have received O. Henry Awards, and inclusion in many anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories. Her latest novel is Don’t Be a Stranger. She currently teaches in the graduate writing program at Stony Brook University and privately at her kitchen table. She lives in both New York City and on North Haven, an island off the coast of Maine.