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
Poems 4 A.M.
Rapture
Monkeys
Lust and Other Stories
Evening

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Books

Don't Be a Stranger
Why I Don't Write
Thirty Girls
Poems 4 A.M.
Rapture
Monkeys
Lust and Other Stories
Evening

Events

Tue Oct 28 | 08:00 PM
What's New at Stony Brook @Book Club Bar
197 E 3RD ST
NEW YORK, NY 10009-7414
Google Map

Sat Nov 08 | 04:00 PM
THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK
29 TINKER ST
WOODSTOCK, NY 12498-1294
Google Map

Fri Nov 14 | 07:00 PM
SOLID STATE BOOKS
600 H ST NE
WASHINGTON, DC 20002
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