Susan’s award-winning debut novel, THE HISTORY TEACHER, is set in 1978 and the 1940s and pays homage to the classic political thrillers of the 1970s. Her career as a writer spans more than 25 years and includes experience as a journalist, author and ghost writer. Her work has also been published under the name Susan Dynerman. A graduate of Barnard College with a degree in history, Susan began writing fiction in earnest the early 2000s and studied with Richard Bausch in his Moss Workshop in Fiction in 2009. Susan grew up in Delaware and has lived in Washington, DC and New York City. Today, she lives and writes in Memphis, Tennessee. PRAISE for THE HISTORY TEACHER "riveting" — Midwest Book Review “fresh and eye-opening” — EMILY YELLIN, author of Our Mothers’ War “cagily and compellingly plotted and eminently credible.” — BRUCE WEBER, author of Life Is a Wheel: Memoirs of a Bike-Riding Obituarist “an excellent, well-crafted debut” — CURTIS WILKIE, author of The Fall of the House of Zeus