Susan Minot

Susan Minot /ˈmaɪnət/ (born December 7, 1956) is an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.

Minot was born in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in Manchester, Massachusetts. She has four sisters and three brothers. She graduated from Concord Academy and then attended Brown University, where she studied writing and painting; in 1983 she graduated from Columbia University School of the Arts with an M.F.A. in creative writing.

Minot's first book, Monkeys, won the 1987 Prix Femina Étranger. In 1984 she received a Pushcart Prize for her story Hiding, and in 2011 she was awarded an O. Henry Award for her story Pole, Pole.

Minot wrote a book of poems, Poems 4 a.m., in 2002.

In Minot's 2014 novel Thirty Girls, Jane, an American journalist, goes to Uganda to report on Kony, a militant rebel leader who kidnaps children from their schools and turns them into soldiers, concubines and drug addicts. Minot simultaneously tells the story of thirty girls who are kidnapped and brutally treated by Kony's followers. Jane visits the convent where the girls were taken and meets Esther, one of the thirty victims.

Minot teaches creative writing at New York University,Stony Brook Southampton, and the University of Tampa.

Minot has co-authored two screenplays that have been made into films: Stealing Beauty (1996) with Bernardo Bertolucci, and Evening (based on her novel of the same name, 2007), written with Michael Cunningham.

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