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Susan Minot

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Susan Minot is an award-winning novelist and short story writer whose books include Monkeys, Folly, Lust & Other Stories, and Evening, which was adapted into the feature film of the same name starring Meryl Streep. Minot was born in Boston and raised in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, attended Brown University, and received her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. She currently lives with her daughter in both New York City and an island off the coast of Maine.

Average rating: 3.46 · 12,016 ratings · 1,679 reviews · 28 distinct worksSimilar authors
Evening

3.38 avg rating — 4,861 ratings — published 1998 — 37 editions
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Thirty Girls

3.37 avg rating — 2,513 ratings — published 2014 — 24 editions
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Monkeys

3.68 avg rating — 1,704 ratings — published 1986 — 36 editions
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Lust and Other Stories

3.70 avg rating — 1,238 ratings — published 1989 — 27 editions
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Why I Don't Write

3.39 avg rating — 467 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions
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Folly: A Novel

3.34 avg rating — 406 ratings — published 1992 — 10 editions
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Poems 4 A.M.

3.60 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions
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Stealing Beauty

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3.96 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions
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Don't Be a Stranger

3.47 avg rating — 17 ratings2 editions
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La lingua dei cani e dei gatti

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“There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.”
Susan Minot, Evening

“I would have fallen in love with you anywhere.”
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“She thought of how much people changed you. It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person. It wasn't true. It was only through other people that one ever did change.”
Susan Minot, Evening

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