Susanna Moore

Susanna Moore is the author of six novels and a book of non-fiction. Her first novel, My Old Sweetheart (Houghton Mifflin, 1982), about mothers and daughters on the island of Hawai'i, garnered a PEN Hemingway Citation and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. The writer and critic Joan Didion praised Moore's debut novel as "one of those brilliant objects that come along only rarely, all light on clear water, and then one realizes the faster currents underneath, the terrible swiftness of sex and time." Moore's other works include the novels The Whiteness of Bones (Doubleday, 1989), Sleeping Beauties (Knopf, 1993), In the Cut (Knopf, 1995), and One Last Look (Knopf, 2004), as well as the non-fictional I Myself Have Seen It: The Myth of Hawai'i (National Geographic, 2003). The Big Girls, Moore's novel based on her experience teaching writing in a federal prison in New York, is forthcoming in 2006. Moore has been a visiting fellow at Yale University and a creative writing instructor at the Graduate School of New York University. In 1999, she was awarded the Prize for Literary Achievement from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. While in residence at the Academy, Moore will write a novel based on the life of Diana Mosley, an Englishwoman and long-time resident of Berlin who was an ardent supporter of Germany during World War II.