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Susan Shapiro Barash has written over a dozen nonfiction books, including Tripping the Prom Queen, You’re Grounded Forever, But First Let’s Go Shopping and Toxic Friends: The Antidote for Women Stuck in Complicated Friendships. For more than twenty years she taught gender studies in the Writing Department at Marymount Manhattan College and has guest taught creative nonfiction at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. For her fiction, Between the Tides, A Palm Beach Wife, A Palm Beach Scandal, and Maribelle’s Shadow, she writes as Susannah Marren.

She has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Elle, Marie Claire, and has appeared on national television including the Today Show, Good
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Susan Shapiro Barash I write every day and actually believe that's the best way to avoid writer's block. If I'm not writing, I'm thinking about what I will write when I ge…moreI write every day and actually believe that's the best way to avoid writer's block. If I'm not writing, I'm thinking about what I will write when I get to my desk. For my nonfiction books, I consider how women feel as mothers, daughters sisters, friends, colleagues, wives, single women in our society. For my novels, I consider the story about how women feel -- how will I convey what I've learned in my research and put it into a dramatic fictional tale. By being engaged in the writing process, I'm able to avoid the dreaded' block' (less)
Susan Shapiro Barash The best thing about being a writer is your ideas. What you dream up as a topic to be researched and a story to be told. Creating the format, working …moreThe best thing about being a writer is your ideas. What you dream up as a topic to be researched and a story to be told. Creating the format, working on characters and plot, interviewing women (for my nonfiction) and imagining the lives of others (for my fiction).
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A Palm Beach Scandal, due out Sept 15th!

A Palm Beach Scandal A Novel by Susannah Marren From Susannah Marren, author of A Palm Beach Wife , comes her next book set in the exclusive, glamorous world of Palm Beach: A PALM BEACH SCANDAL (St. Martin’s Griffin; On-sale: September 15, 2020) . Marren follows two sisters as one offers the ultimate selfless act to the other, proving the very meaning of family in this novel of artifice and intrigue.

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“The mother who understands her own intentions and her daughter’s intentions, who has introspection and a strong sense of self, and who is able to separate her identity from her daughter’s, has the key to achieving the right balance.”
Susan Shapiro Barash

“Although previous studies had suggested that friendship--male and female--could be a powerful antidote to stress, more recent research indicates that broken promises, dashed expectations, and other side effects of friendship gone wrong can actually raise the level of stress in our lives, often to disastrous effect.”
Susan Shapiro Barash, Tripping the Prom Queen: The Truth About Women and Rivalry

“Every time we cheer the downfall of a powerful woman, we're giving ourselves the message that power is bad and we shouldn't desire it. Every time we revel in a beautiful woman's aging or weight gain, we reinforce the idea that we, too, are less valuable if we are old or overweight. Every time we gloat over a woman's loss of a husband to a younger, prettier rival, we are reminding ourselves that our own relationship is unstable, that someday our man, too, will move on to greener pastures.”
Susan Shapiro Barash, Tripping the Prom Queen: The Truth About Women and Rivalry

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