Susan Kenney

Susan McIlvaine Kenney (born April 28, 1941) is an American short story writer and novelist.

Life

She was born in Summit, New Jersey,^[1] and spent her childhood in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York. She graduated from Northwestern University with a B.A. Phi Beta Kappa, and from Cornell University, with a Ph.D. She taught at Colby College.^[2]

She married professor Edwin Kenney, who died on December 8, 1992; they had two children, James and Anne.^[3]

Awards

• Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
• New York State Regents Graduate Fellowship
• 1982 O. Henry Award for "Facing Front"
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing, 1983–1984
• New Voice Literary Award, In Another Country, 1985
• ALN Notable Books of the Year, for In Another Country
• 1989 New York Times Notable Paperback of the Year, for Sailing

Works

Mysteries

• Garden of Malice. Penguin Group USA. 1992. ISBN 978-0-14-016966-9. 
• Graves in Academe. Penguin Books. 1986. ISBN 978-0-14-009386-5. 
• One Fell Sloop. Viking. 1990. ISBN 978-0-670-83537-9. 

Novels

• In Another Country. Penguin Books. 1985. ISBN 978-0-14-007407-9. 
• Sailing. Viking. 1988. ISBN 978-0-670-81229-5. 

Anthologies

• Wesley McNair, ed. (2005). "The Death of the Dog and Other Rescues". Contemporary Maine fiction: an anthology of short stories. Down East Enterprise Inc. ISBN 978-0-89272-693-6. 

References