Susanna Moore

Susanna Moore
Moore at the 2007 Brooklyn Book Festival
Born (1945-12-09) December 9, 1945
Occupation Writer, actress, production designer, costume designer
Spouse Richard Sylbert (1973–1978)
Children 1
Website
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Susanna Moore (born December 9, 1945) is an American writer.

Moore was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and grew up in Hawaii. Her memoir I Myself Have Seen It: The Myth of Hawaii provides insight into a life in Hawaii.

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 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. During May to August 2009, Susanna Moore was Writer-in-Residence at Australia's University of Adelaide.

Moore worked for a while in Los Angeles in the late 1960s as Warren Beatty's assistant.[2]

Publications

Fiction

  • My Old Sweetheart (1982)
  • The Whiteness of Bones (1989)
  • Sleeping Beauties (1993)
  • In the Cut (1995)
  • One Last Look (2003)
  • The Big Girls (2007)
  • The Life of Objects (2012)

Non-fiction

  • I Myself Have Seen It: The Myth of Hawai‘i (2003)
  • Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawai‘i (2015

References

  1. "Citigroup Fellow, Class of Fall 2006". American Academy in Berlin. Archived from the original on December 30, 2012. Retrieved March 11, 2012.
  2. Peter Biskind "Star" Warren Beatty Biography
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