Minot, Susan

Susan Minot is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, and screenwriter. Her first novel, "Monkeys", was published in a dozen countries and won the Prix Femina Etranger in France. Her novel "Evening" was a worldwide bestseller and became a major motion picture. She received her MFA from Columbia University and lives with her daughter in New York City and on an island off the coast of Maine.