For the A to Z Challenge, I will be featuring up to three
authors per letter (via their last name). Some of the authors responded to my
request for authors to promote. Others, I found. Please check them out and
their books. Thank you!
I found Susan Isaacs through Amazon while searching for "I" authors. Her books look wonderful.
I found Susan Isaacs through Amazon while searching for "I" authors. Her books look wonderful.
Our "I" Author
Isaacs, Susan
Susan Isaacs, novelist, essayist and screenwriter, was born in
Brooklyn and educated at Queens College. She worked as an editorial
assistant at Seventeen magazine writing everything from book reviews to
advice to the lovelorn. In 1968, Susan married Elkan Abramowitz, then a
federal prosecutor. She became a senior editor but left Seventeen in
1970 to stay home with her newborn son, Andrew. Three years later, she
gave birth to Elizabeth. During this time she freelanced, writing
political speeches as well as magazine articles.
In the
mid-seventies, Susan got the urge to write a novel. A year later she
began Compromising Positions, a whodunit set on suburban Long Island. It
was published in. Her second novel, Close Relations, a love story set
against a background of ethnic, sexual and New York Democratic politics
(thus a comedy), was published in. Her third, Almost Paradise, was
published in 1984. All of Susan's novels have been New York Times
bestsellers. Her fiction has been translated into thirty languages.
In
1985, she wrote the screenplay for Paramount's Compromising Positions,
which starred Susan Sarandon and Raul Julia. She also wrote and
co-produced Disney's Hello Again. The 1987 comedy starred Shelley Long
and Gabriel Byrne.
Her fourth novel, Shining Through, set during
World War II, was published in 1988. The film adaptation starred Michael
Douglas and Melanie Griffith. Then came Magic Hour January 1991, After
All These Years in 1993. Lily White in 1996 and Red, White and Blue in
1998. In 1999, Susan came out with her first work of nonfiction, Brave
Dames and Wimpettes: What Women Are Really Doing on Page and Screen.
During 2000, she wrote a series of columns on the presidential campaign
for Newsday. Long Time No See, a sequel to Compromising Positions, came
out in September 2001. Anyplace I Hang My Hat, was published in 2004.
Past Perfect is her eleventh novel.
Susan Isaacs is a recipient of
the Writers for Writers Award and the John Steinbeck Award. She serves
as chairman of the board of Poets & Writers and is a past president
of Mystery Writers of America. She is also a member of the National Book
Critics Circle, The Creative Coalition, PEN, the American Society of
Journalists and Authors, the International Association of Crime Writers,
and the Adams Round Table. Besides writing innumerable book reviews,
Susan has also written about politics, film and First Amendment issues.
She lives on Long Island with her husband.
Links: Amazon Author Page
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