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uzanne Berne spent her early years on a horse farm in Warrenton, Virginia, before moving to Washington, DC, where her father taught courses on mythology at Georgetown University and her mother became a psychologist. After earning her B.A. in English at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and then an M.F.A. at the University of Iowas Writers Workshop, Suzanne lived for several years in California, where she held jobs ranging from a stint as a proofreader for the Hollywood Reporter to hostess at a San Francisco restaurant, while also writing for several newspapers and beginning to publish short stories. In 1986, she began teaching expository writing at Harvard University. During this period she was also reviewing for the New York Times Book Review and writing essays and articles for the Travel section. She has also published essays in numerous magazines, from Vogue and Allure to Ploughshares.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
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The Walled Garden (2022)
Robin Farrar Maass
"Part literary mystery, part love story, part gently ironic send-up of both, The Walled Garden captures our American tendency to romanticize all things British, particularly lush gardens, eccentric poets, Oxford, and aristocrats. Maass deftly manages to weave them all together is this witty, absorbing, warmly intelligent novel. One to savor on a long summer afternoon by the backyard roses."
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Private Way (2022)
Ladette Randolph
"A wonderfully wise, vividly written, and deeply absorbing novel that delves into Willa Cather's question about what is required of 'a civilized society.' By turns funny, reflective, and harrowing . . . Private Way is that rare novel that acknowledges the real hazards of civic life while also celebrating its transformative power."
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The Blackmailer's Guide to Love (2021)
Marian Thurm
"If Dorothy Parker had tried writing Fatal Attraction, she might have come up with something like this wonderfully wry roman à clef about New York's overheated literary world in the 70s. Although Marian Thurm is a far more compassionate observer of human nature, and her appealingly troubled characters, by turns funny, touching and unsettling, are completely her own."

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Awards
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book winner (1999) : A Crime in the Neighborhood
Women's Prize For Fiction Best Novel winner (1999) : A Crime in the Neighborhood


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