Ellen sussman biography

Ellen Sussman is a.
Ellen Sussman is the author of four national bestselling novels: A Wedding in Provence, The Paradise Guest House, French Lessons and On a Night Like This.
Ellen Sussman is the New York Times bestselling author of four novels, A WEDDING IN PROVENCE, THE PARADISE GUEST HOUSE, FRENCH LESSONS, and ON A NIGHT LIKE.

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Ellen Susman

Ellen Spencer
Born	(1950-10-16) October 16, 1950 (age 74)^[1]
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Television journalist, anchor, host, producer and moderator.
Known for	Former director, US Department of StateArt in Embassies Program^[2]
Notable work	Balancing Your Life with Ellen Susman; Philadelphia's KYW-TV Evening/PM Magazine host;
Spouse	Stephen Susman (m. 1999; died 2020)
Children	2 children, 2 stepchildren

Ellen Spencer Susman (born October 16, 1950) is an American journalist, philanthropist, political appointee and television producer. She was nominated by Barack Obama in September 2011 to serve as a member of his Advisory Committee on the Arts for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.^[2] She served from 2013 to 2016 as the director of the US Department of StateArt in Embassies Program,^[3] a public-private partnership of American and international artists, collectors, galleries, foundations, museums a

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Ellen Sussman

American novel writer

Ellen Sussman is a New York Times bestselling author of four novels. She was born in Trenton, New Jersey and resides in Sebastopol, California with her husband. Sussman's work features settings and characters from France to Bali to the United States.^[1] She lived in Paris from 1988 to 1993 with her first husband and two daughters.^[2]

Career

Sussman attended Tufts University for her undergraduate degree and Johns Hopkins University for her graduate degree in creative writing.^[3]Jonathan Strong was her mentor and teacher while she studied at Tufts University.

Despite knowing she wanted to be a writer at age six, Sussman endured years of rejection before successfully publishing her first novel at the age of 49.^[4]^[2] In addition to writing, Sussman teaches private writing classes and workshops.^[5] One of the private classes is called "Novel in a Year" in which students write and entire novel over the course of the year with Sussman's guidance and critiques.^[4]

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Ellen was born in Trenton, NJ and has lived in Boston, Philly, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Paris and Northern California. She has worked lots of jobs including tennis instructor, restaurant manager, and college teacher but through all the transmutations of her life she has been writing, since the age of six, stubbornly, persistently, with great cockiness and wild insecurity, through praise and piles of rejection letters. She has given up her writing career many times, but only for a day or two, and her family has now learned to ignore her new career choices. She is a writer, an almost daily writer, a writer who actually loves to write.

Genres: Literary Fiction

Books containing stories by Ellen Sussman

The Lost Manuscript (2021)
Cathy Bonidan
"In this wonderful epistolary novel, a woman finds a long-lost manuscript, searches for the author and sets in motion a beguiling story about love, literature and community. What more could a reader want? Toss in a few gorgeous French villages to add to the charm. Et voila. Literary joy."

Life and Other Shortcomings (2