11 Facts About Susanna Moore

Susanna Moore was born on December 9,1945 and is an American writer and teacher.

Susanna Moore followed this with The Whiteness of Bones in 1989, and her third novel, Sleeping Beauties, in 1993.

Susanna Moore was born December 9,1945, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

Susanna Moore is the oldest of seven children, and was raised by her widowered father, a physician; her mother died in her childhood.

At age seventeen, Susanna Moore returned to the mainland United States to live in Philadelphia with her grandmother.

Susanna Moore later lived in New York City and Los Angeles, working as a model and script reader.

For My Old Sweetheart, Susanna Moore earned a PEN Hemingway nomination, and won the Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Susanna Moore went on to publish two works in 2003: the British India-set novel One Last Look, and the non-fiction I Myself Have Seen It: The Myth of Hawai'i, an autobiographical work that explored Susanna Moore's upbringing in Hawaii.

In 2006, Susanna Moore received a Fellowship in Literature at the American Academy in Berlin; and in 2006 she received a Fellowship in Literature from the Asian Cultural Council, which entailed a three-month fellowship to research on the Meiji Period in Japan.

Susanna Moore was a visiting lecturer in Creative Writing at Yale University in 1988,1989 and 1994; visiting lecturer at New York Graduate School in 1995; creative writing teacher at the Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn between 2004 and 2006; and lecturer of creative writing at Princeton University between 2007 and 2009.

Susanna Moore has a daughter, Lulu, with production designer and art director Richard Sylbert, and later lived with Michael Laughlin.