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Susan Minot/ˈmaɪnət/ (born December 7, 1956) is an Americannovelist,short story writer, poet, playwright, screenwriter and painter.^[1]

Minot was born inBoston, Massachusetts, and grew up inManchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts.^[2] She graduated fromConcord Academy in 1974 and then attendedBrown University, where she studied writing and painting. In 1983 she graduated fromColumbia University School of the Arts with an MFA in creative writing.^[3]

Minot's first book,Monkeys, won the 1987Prix Femina étranger in France and was published in a dozen countries. Her other books, all published internationally, areLust & Other Stories,Folly,Evening,Rapture,Poems 4 A.M., andThirty Girls.

In 1984, she received first prize in thePushcart Prize for her story "Hiding".^[4] Among the anthologies that include her fiction areThe Best American Short Stories 1984 and 1985 and thePen/O. Henry Prize Stories 1985, 1989 and 2011.^[5]

Minot's poems and stories have been published inThe New Yorker,^[6]Grand Street,The Paris Review,GQ,Kenyon Review,River City,New England Review,Swink,Mississippi Review,H.O.W.,Marie Claire (UK edition),Fiction,Northwest Humanities Review andAtlantic Monthly. Her nonfiction and travel writing have appeared inThe Best American Travel Writing 2001 andMcSweeney's,The New York Times,The Paris Review,Vogue,Travel and Leisure,Esquire,American Scholar,House & Garden,Condé Nast Traveller,Victoria, andPorter Magazine.

Minot has taught creative writing at New York University,^[7] Stony Brook Southampton,^[8] and Columbia University.

Minot wrote the screenplay forStealing Beauty (1996) withBernardo Bertolucci, and co-authoredEvening (based on her novel of the same name) withMichael Cunningham.

Minot's book of poemsPoems 4 AM was published in 2002.

The Little Locksmith, a play based onthe book by Katharine Butler Hathaway (1942), was performed in North Haven, Maine, in 2002, starringLinda Hunt.

Time, death and desire are main themes in Minot's work. Sexuality and relationships, romantic and familial, are explored. Her second book,Lust & Other Stories, focuses on "the relations between men and women in their twenties and thirties having difficulty coming together and difficulty breaking apart".^[3] Reviewing her novellaRapture inThe Atlantic Monthly, James Marcus wrote, "Sex and the single girl have seldom been absent from Susan Minot's fiction",^[9] and Dave Welch at Powells.com identifies one of Minot's themes as "the emotional safeguards within family and romantic relations that hold people apart".^[10] OfLust, Jill Franks wrote that Minot

begins with short, simple sentences, building gradually to longer ones to create the inevitable conclusion: men don't love like women do.^[11]

InFolly, a Bostonian woman of privileged background is involved with two different men as she tries to find equilibrium with her society and family in the era between the world wars.Evening is the story of a woman on her deathbed looking back over her life and returning to a wedding weekend 40 years earlier when she fell in love and certain paths in her life were decided. It was nominated for aLos Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction.Thirty Girls is the story of two women: a Ugandan girl of 15 who has escaped from living two years with armed bandits of the LRA led byJoseph Kony, and an American writer, traveling with free spirits on a journalist trip to Uganda to report on the story of the abducted children.^[12]

Minot's father, George Richards Minot, was born in 1927 and worked as a banker and stockbroker in Boston. Her mother, born Helen Ruth Hannon in 1929 and known as Carrie Minot, was a mother and homemaker; she was killed on January 16, 1978, when the car she was driving was hit at a train crossing, the signals being down after an ice storm.

Minot married Davis McHenry in 1991. They divorced in 1993. She lived with her second husband, Charles Pingree, from 2000 to 2009. They had a daughter in 2001. Minot lives with her daughter in New York City and on the island ofNorth Haven. She has six siblings: Carrie Minot Bell, an artist; Dinah Minot Hubley, a photographer;^[13] Eliza Minot Price, a novelist; George Minot, a novelist; Sam Minot, a painter; and Christopher Minot, an artist.^[2]

• Monkeys. New York: Dutton, 1986.ISBN 978-0-525-24342-7
• Lust & Other Stories. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1989.ISBN 978-0-395-48888-1
• Folly. Washington Square Press, 1994.ISBN 978-0-7927-1565-8
• Evening. New York: Knopf, 1998.ISBN 978-0-375-40037-7
• Rapture. New York: Knopf, 2002.ISBN 978-0-375-41327-8
• Thirty Girls. New York: Knopf, 2014.ISBN 978-0-307-26638-5
• Why I Don't Write: And Other Stories. New York: Knopf, 2020.ISBN 978-0-525-65824-5
• Don't Be a Stranger. Knopf. 2024-10-15.ISBN 978-0-593-80244-1.^{[14][15][16][17]}

• Stealing Beauty. With Bernardo Bertolucci. New York: Grove Press, 1996.ISBN 978-0-8021-3492-9
• Evening. With Michael Cunningham. 2007.

• Poems 4 A.M. New York: Knopf, 2003.ISBN 978-0-375-70955-5

• The Little Locksmith
• On Island, an original play, premiered at Islands Theater in North Haven, Maine, August 2, 2018, directed by Lily Thorne.

• https://www.portlandmonthly.com/portmag/2018/07/stage-sight

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