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Susan Richards Shreve


USA flag (b.1939)

aka Susan Shreve

Susan Richards Shreve is an American professor, author, and novelist, as well as author of over a dozen children's books. She currently teaches at George Mason University.

Shreve was educated at the University of Pennsylvania as well as the University of Virginia. She has also taught at George Washington University, Bennington College, and Princeton. She briefly served as an essayist on The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.She has four grown children, one of whom, Porter Shreve, is also a published author. Shreve lives in Washington, DC. She is the writer of several series including Joshua T. Bates.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   A Fortunate Madness (1974)
   A Woman Like That (1977)
   Children of Power (1979)
   Miracle Play (1981)
   Dreaming of Heroes (1984)
   Queen of Hearts (1987)
   A Country of Strangers (1989)
   Daughters of the New World (1992)
   The Train Home (1993)
   The Visiting Physician (1996)
   Plum & Jaggers (2000)
   A Student of Living Things (2006)
   You Are the Love of My Life (2012)
   More News Tomorrow (2019)
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