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 Lulu Sylbert
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 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 and 1994; Visiting Lecturer at New York Graduate School in 1995; Creative Writing Teacher at Brooklyn Metropolitan 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 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

Novels

Memoir

References

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

External links

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