We are thrilled to announce that Long Island favorite and best-selling author Susan Isaacs has just been added to our incredible list of Featured Readers!   She will be reading in Session 2.

Susan Isaacs was dubbed “Jane Austen with a shmear” on NPR’s Fresh Air. Among her thirteen novels are Almost Paradise, Shining Through and After All These Years.  She has written screenplays for two films, Compromising Positions (adapted from her novel) and Hello Again as well as a nonfiction work, Brave Dames and Wimpettes: What Women are Really Doing on Page and Screen.

Currently, she serves as chairman of the literary organization Poets & Writers.  A member of the National Book Critics Circle, she has reviewed for New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, and Newsday.  She is a past president of Mystery Writers of America and belongs to the Creative Coalition, PEN, and the International Association of Crime Writers.

Susan is a trustee emerita of the Queens College Foundation and on the board of the Jewish Theological Seminary.  Among her honors are the John Steinbeck award, the Writers for Writers award, and the Marymount Manhattan Writing Center prize.  She has worked gathering support for the National Endowment of the Arts Literature Program and on many anti-censorship campaigns.