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

Books

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

Books for Women’s History Month

In honor of Women’s History Month in March, we are sharing books by women who have shaped history and have fought for their communities. Our list includes books about women who fought for racial justice, abortion rights, equality in the workplace, and ranges in topics from women in politics and prominent women in history to

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