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Sam Sussman


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Sam Sussman grew up in the Hudson Valley. He graduated with a BA from Swarthmore College and an MPhil from the University of Oxford and has lived in Berlin and Jerusalem. His writing has been recognized by BAFTA and published in Harper’s Magazine. Sam has taught writing seminars in India, Chile, and England and participated in the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature. He lives in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan and his native Hudson Valley.

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“she went on, “you can change whatever you want about yourself. What is life if not a series of transformations? But your foundation has to be love for who you are now.”
― Sam Sussman, Boy from the North Country: A Novel
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“Raeben”
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“I didn’t need to press the matter tonight. This was the first time since her surgery that she was at ease and I didn’t want to take that from her.”
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