Susan Shreve
Susan Shreve
Susan Shreveis an American novelist, memoirist, and children’s book author. She has published fourteen novels, most recently You Are the Love of My Life, and a memoir Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood. She has also published thirty books for children, most recently The Lovely Shoes, and co-edited five anthologies. Shreve founded the Master of Fine Artsin 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
As a child, I was an observer, a listener for the stories of grown-ups. I led a quiet, solitary life with my mother, interrupted in the evenings by the arrival of my father who preferred to live in a state of emergency.
My mother listened to everything I said, carefully - not that what I said was particularly interesting, but I was her daughter.