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Join us as we welcome SUSAN BACON on SUNDAY, AUGUST 18 at 2:00 PM to celebrate the release of her new novel THE ART COLLECTOR.ABOUT THE BOOK:
It is February 1987. Seal Larsen is a photographer, denizen of New York’s downtown scene and the subject of one of Andy Warhol’s short films. When she dies in a suspicious fall from the 15th floor of her Manhattan apartment building, her friend and neighbor, Emma Quinn, is determined to find out what happened. A history professor at Columbia University with connections to the intelligence community, Emma soon realizes how little she really knows about her friend. Exploring Seal’s life, her work, her past, Emma makes her way down to rural Tennessee, unaware that she’s putting herself at risk. It’s there, on an isolated two-thousand-acre farm, that she begins to grasp the tragedy that defined Seal’s life and the truth about her death.
A sequel to The History Teacher, Bacon’s award-winning debut novel, The Art Collector is an intrigue, a puzzle, a plot-twister. It is also an exploration of the value of art and the people who make it; of the culture that fueled Manhattan’s art boom in the second half of the 20th century, and of privilege—and the class differences that define us and divide us.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Susan’s career as a writer spans more than 30 years and includes experience as a journalist, speechwriter, copywriter, ghost writer and author. Her debut novel, The History Teacher, won an Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY Award) in the Best Regional Fiction category in 2020. She also writes under the name Susan Dynerman.
A Delaware native, Susan graduated from Barnard College with a degree in history. She began her career as an editor of Memphis magazine and a stringer for Time and Fortune. She also worked as a corporate speechwriter and ad copywriter in Memphis before moving to Washington DC.
In the early ‘90s, Susan wrote (or co-wrote) two books on the politics of parenting, including Are Our Kids All Right?, a Parents’ Choice selection. An advocate for enlightened family leave and childcare policies, she was featured in major media, including NBC’s Today Show and USA Today. During that time, she also contributed feature stories to the Washington Post.
In 1996, she joined the staff of a DC-based design firm as a senior writer. Six years later, she returned to Memphis and started her own business doing special projects for corporate and agency clients and helping other authors with their books. She also pulled a handful of short stories out of a drawer and began writing fiction in earnest, and in 2009, she studied with Richard Bausch in his Moss Workshop in Fiction.
Susan’s ghostwriting clients have included authors under contract to major publishers (Penguin, Da Capo Press, Hay House), and her ghostwriting credits include an international bestseller. In addition to IPPY and Parent’s Choice awards for her own books, Susan has won numerous awards for copywriting including three ADDY Awards (AAF, Washington, DC).
Susan lives in Memphis, Tennessee. To request an interview, schedule a visit with your book club via Zoom or just get in touch, please contact Susan via her website at www.susanbacon.com or by email at [email protected].
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387 Perkins Ext, Memphis, TN, United States, Tennessee 38117
