Susanna Moore

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Susanna Moore
Moore at the 2007 Brooklyn Book Festival
Born	(1945-12-09) December 9, 1945
Occupation	Writer, Actress, Production designer, Costume designer
Spouse(s)	Richard Sylbert (1973-1978)
Children	Lulu Sylbert
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Susanna Moore (born December 9, 1945) in Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania, is an American writer.

Susanna Moore grew up in Hawaii. Her memoir, I Myself Have Seen It: The Myth of Hawaii gives the reader deep insight into a life in Hawaii other than that presented by tourist brochures.

In 1999, she received the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 2006 she received a Fellowship in Literature at the American Academy in Berlin;^[1] and in 2007 she received a Fellowship in Literature from the Asian Cultural Council.

Susanna Moore was Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at Yale University in 1988, 1989 & 1994; Visiting Lecturer at New York Graduate School in 1995; Creative Writing Teacher at Brooklyn Federal Detention Center between 2004 and 2006; and Lecturer of Creative Writing at Princeton University between 2007 and 2009. During May to August 2009, Susanna Moore will be Writer-in-Residence at Australia's University of Adelaide.

Worked for a while in LA the late 1960s as Warren Beatty's assistant.^[2]

Novels

My Old Sweetheart (1982) ISBN 0-679-77641-9
The Whiteness of Bones (1989) ISBN 1-4000-7504-1
Sleeping Beauties (1993)
In the Cut (1995) ISBN 0-452-28129-6 & ISBN 0-452-28480-5 (filmed by Jane Campion starring Meg Ryan)
One Last Look (2003) ISBN 1-4000-7541-6
I Myself Have Seen It: The Myth of Hawai'i (2003) ISBN 0-7922-6528-9
The Big Girls (2007) ISBN 1-4000-4190-2 and ISBN 978-1-4000-4190-9
The Life of Objects (2012) ISBN 0307268438 and ISBN 978-0307268433

References

↑ "Citigroup Fellow, Class of Fall 2006". American Academy in Berlin. Retrieved March 11, 2012.
↑ Peter Biskind "Star" Warren Beatty Biography

External links

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 109902730 LCCN: n82051261 ISNI: 0000 0001 1479 9376 GND: 115700498 BNF: cb126645571

Persondata
Name	Moore, Susanna
Alternative names
Short description	American writer
Date of birth	December 9, 1945
Place of birth	Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Date of death
Place of death

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