Susan Shapiro Barash
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Susan Shapiro Barash | |
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| Alma mater | Sarah Lawrence College (B.A.), New York University (Master of Arts in Creative Writing and Literature) |
| Website | susanshapirobarash |
Susan Shapiro Barash is an American fiction and nonfiction author.[1] She writes fiction under her pen name Susannah Marren. Her novels include A Palm Beach Wife, and A Palm Beach Scandal and Maribelle's Shadow.[2] Her nonfiction titles includes Tripping the Prom Queen: The Truth about Women and Rivalry, The Nine Phases of Marriage, and Little White Lies, Deep Dark Secrets: The Truth about Why Women Lie.[2]
Barash's books focus on the gender divide, how women are positioned in American society and their feelings about themselves in different roles[3][4]
Barash has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post,[5] New York Magazine,[6] Elle,[7] and many other publications.[8] She has appeared on national television including The Today Show,[9] CBS,[10] CNN,[11] and MSNBC.[12] Barash has been a guest on NPR and Sirius Radio and speaking appearances include Credit Suisse, Bayer Diagnostics, UBS, United Way, Kravis Center for the Arts and the Society of the Four Arts. Several of her titles have been optioned by Lifetime and HBO.[13][14][8]
For over two decades Barash has taught in the Writing Department at Marymount Manhattan College.[15] She has guest taught at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College[16] and has served as a literary panelist for the New York State Council on the Arts. Barash has also been a judge for the International Emmys and Vice Chair of the Mentoring Committee of the Women's Leadership Board at the JFK School of Government, Harvard.[17][8][4][1]
