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Susan Harris Howell

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in Evansville, Indiana, The United States

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Mystery, Paranormal, Psychology

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I am a psychologist, speaker, and author of The Spirit of Vanderlaan, my debut novel released in December of 2024. This book is a fun, cozy, ghost story featuring a professor, Samantha Hayes, and her lively band of students who get caught up in solving a campus mystery. This book draws on my teaching career of over thirty years to capture the camaraderie and warmth between a professor and the assortment of personalities which inhabit her office.

I have also published extensively on equality between women and men. My first book, Buried Talents, explores the subtle ways women are discouraged from entering male-dominated occupations. Buried Talents was named a winner in InterVarsity Press’s 2022 Readers’ Choice Awards.

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If Your Life Were Made Into a Movie...

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“If your life were made into a movie, what genre would it be?”

This is the question I often asked students on the first day of class as a get-acquainted activity. Over the years I’ve heard a lot of students claim drama, comedy, or mystery. A few even suggested sci-fi. (I don’t think I ever heard anyone - even the occasional 18-year-old who was truly and completely

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