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Susan Minot, author portrait
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Susan Minot

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 Étranger in France. Her novel Evening was a worldwide bestseller and became a major motion picture. Her ninth book, published in 2024, is the novel Don't Be a Stranger about a woman searching for herself as a mother and a lover. She teaches at Stony Brook University in the Graduate Writing Program, and lives in New York City and on an island in Maine.
Don't Be a Stranger
Why I Don't Write
Thirty Girls
Rapture
Monkeys
Lust and Other Stories
Evening

Books

Don't Be a Stranger
Why I Don't Write
Thirty Girls
Rapture
Monkeys
Lust and Other Stories
Evening

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