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 the writer of a pseudonymous book, I gave up my own accumulated history as a novelist and became what I had been as a child: unnamed, unidentified, unacknowledged. Invisible. In a very real sense, what I hope for in the process of imagining a book is to disappear.