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Biography: Susan Minot

Page history last edited by amber stadtlander 13 years, 11 months ago

 

Susan Minot was born on December 7, 1956 in Manchester, Massachusetts.  Susan spent her childhood in the suburbs north of Boston (Manchester) with her six brothers and sisters up until her parents sent her to preparatory school at Concord Academy.  Throughout, her time being spent at the academy, Susan picked up a fondest for writing.  With that being said, she decided to go to Brown University to study creative writing.  During her senior year at Brown University, she joined the staff of Concord’s literacy magazine in 1976.  Senior year is supposed to be the prime time of your life, but Susan’s mother died tragically in a car accident.  After earning her Bachelors degree at Brown, she returned home to care for her father and younger sister.  Susan put off her dreams to enroll in a Masters program because of her mother’s death, but it did not stop her from writing. 

 

A few years later, Susan finally enrolls in a Masters of Fine Arts program at Columbia University.  Minot graduates in 1983 with her Masters degree in Fine Arts.  Three years later, several of her short stories are published into one book. Monkeys.  Her book Monkeys won the Prix Femina.  Lust and Other Stories was published in 1989.  "Lust and Other Stories contains twelve tales depicting heterosexual relationships that dissolve due to the emotional disparity between the book's male and female characters. The women narrators express feelings of sexual ambivalence and dissatisfaction with the lack of intimacy they share with their male counterparts, who are often described as insensitive and noncommittal."  Most of her books are based on sex.  Susan Minot composed a few more books Folly in 1992, Evening in 1999, and Rapture in 2002.  She also produced a screen-play in 1996 known as Stealing Beauty.

 

 

 

 


"Lust"

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Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2010. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2010. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC

Comments (6)

stephanie.wardrop@... said

at 8:20 am on Apr 27, 2010

A fine start! Is the photo one you can really use? (I couldn't find one on wikimedia). Don't forget to credit it.

amber stadtlander said

at 8:22 am on Apr 27, 2010

It's the only picture I could find, and I did credit it at the bottom of the page.

Christen Mirando said

at 8:11 am on May 4, 2010

Good information! Very useful for highschool students. Some of the language may confuse them such as "sexual ambivalence" but very well done.

Damon Alston said

at 8:11 am on May 4, 2010

I like this it is not to long and not too short. nice picture too

chrisl7605@hotmail.com said

at 8:13 am on May 4, 2010

I think that this is a good size for a high school student to look at.

chrisl7605@hotmail.com said

at 8:14 am on May 4, 2010

I think that this is a good size for a high school student to look at.

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