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Susan Harris Howell

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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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“What pushes someone toward becoming a workaholic?”

“What do we get out of spending too much time at work at the expense of our families?”

These are the questions pondered several years ago in a Sunday School class I attended.

Answers ranged from the desire to provide for a family to employment insecurities to a desire to contribute to creative,

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