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Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Fiction

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Susan Overby Swanson majored in English and journalism at the University of Minnesota back in the late fifties, when “Hound Dog” and “Mack the Knife” were big hits and a gallon of gas cost twenty-four cents. So, to put it gently, she’s history personified. And history is what drew her to the Louisiana River Road in 1986, when she left the Midwest for the South. She was soon so involved with history of St. James Parish that she was asked to write their promotional literature.

She’s been a church organist and piano accompanist for the Suzuki Violin program at the University of Minnesota. And she’s studied with the best – Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer prize-winning author – at a summer session of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

She now lives in New ...more

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message 2: by Susan

Jul 13, 2021 12:03PM

Marilynne Robinson was the first literary giant who encouraged my dogged pursuit toward completion of REBIRTH IN ACADI, my novel that was released in late March. She is such an insightful reader and writer. I only wish I could duplicate her efforts. Do you mean that you studied with Elizabeth Strout? Now that would be a dream come true.

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message 1: by Elizabeth

Jul 13, 2021 10:26AM

So jealous that you studied under Marilynne Robinson in Iowa. I have read all of her novels, some of them twice. HOME is probably my favorite, though Gilead is so so powerful. I lived in Des Moines for 17 years and discovered I could take classes at the U of Iowa every summer. So I did. Elizabeth Strout! Anyway, keep reading and enjoying, Beth Havey

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