Susanna Moore

Biography

Susanna Moore is a writer and teacher born on December 9, 1945, in Pennsylvania, but raised in Hawaii. She published her first novel, My Old Sweetheart, in 1982, earning a PEN Hemingway nomination and the Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her fourth novel, In the Cut (1995), marked a departure from her previous works, set in New York City, which was adapted into a feature film by Jane Campion.