Susan Minot

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

Her non-fiction and travel writing have appeared in The Best American Travel Writing 2001 and McSweeney's, New York Times, Paris Review, Vogue, Travel and Leisure, Esquire, American Scholar, House & Garden, Condé Nast Traveller, Victoria, and Porter Magazine.

Minot wrote the screenplay for Stealing Beauty (1996) with Bernardo Bertolucci, and co-authored Evening (based on her novel of the same name, 2007), with Michael Cunningham.

Minot was married in 1991 to Davis McHenry and divorced in 1993. She lived with her second husband, Charles Pingree of North Haven, Maine from 2000 to 2009. Their daughter Ava Minot Pingree was born in 2001. She lives with her daughter in New York City and on the island of North Haven.

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

In 1984, she received the first prize in Pushcart Prize for her story "Hiding." Among the anthologies her fiction has been included in are: The Best American Short Stories 1984 and 1985, the Pen/ O Henry Prize Stories: 1985, 1989 and in 2011 for her story "Pole, Pole".

Minot was born in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts. Her father George Richards Minot was born in 1927 and worked as a banker and stock broker in Boston. Her mother born Helen Ruth Hannon in 1929, known as Carrie Minot, was a mother and homemaker, was killed January 16, 1978 when the car she was driving was hit at a train crossing, the signals being down after an ice storm. She has three sisters: Carrie Minot Bell, an artist; Dinah Minot Hubley, a photographer and non-profit manager; Eliza Minot Price, a novelist, and three brothers George Minot, a novelist, nutritionist and yoga teacher; Sam Minot, a painter; and Christopher Minot, an artist and museum installer. She graduated from Concord Academy in 1974 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.

Susan Minot /ˈ m aɪ n ə t / (born December 7, 1956) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, screenwriter and painter.

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