Susan Minot
Susan Minot (born Dec 7, 1956) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, screenwriter and painter. Minot's first book, Monkeys, won the 1987 Prix Femina étranger in France and was published in a dozen countries. Her other books
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Susan Minot (born Dec 7, 1956) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, screenwriter and painter. Minot's first book, Monkeys, won the 1987 Prix Femina étranger in France and was published in a dozen countries. Her other books all published internationally are Lust & Other Stories, Folly, Evening, Rapture, Poems 4 A.M. and Thirty Girls. In 1984, she received the first prize in Pushcart Prize for her story "Hiding." Among the anthologies her fiction has been included in are: The Best American Short Stories 1984 and 1985, the Pen/ O Henry Prize Stories: 1985, 1989 and in 2011 for her story "Pole, Pole". Minot's poems and stories have been published in The New Yorker, Grand Street, The Paris Review, GQ, Kenyon Review, River City, New England Review, Swink, Mississippi Review, H.O.W., British Marie Claire, Fiction, Northwest Humanities Review and Atlantic Monthly.
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