A Chicagoan most of her life, Susan Sussman was a freelance journalist for seventeen years writing for Chicago newspapers as well as national publications. As those markets dried up, she moved into the book market in 1982 with Hippo Thunder, a picture book.
Seventeen books later, she's published both fiction and non-fiction for ages pre-school through adult. Two of her children’s science books are recommended by Science Teachers of America: Lies (People Believe) About Animals, and Big Friend, Little Friend: A Book About Symbiosis.
Her book about a little Jewish girl at Christmas time was nominated for the Jewish Council Book Award: There’s No Such Thing as a Chanukah Bush, Sandy Goldstein, and is recommended by the National Conference of Christians and Jews as, "...a story promoting brotherhood and understanding.”
In 1998 she won an EMMY for her screen adaptation of her children’s book There’s No Such Thing as a Chanukah Bush, Sandy Goldstein. She just finished Little Women: The Musical (written with Elaine Burke) which is making the rounds, and is completing a novel about a woman at mid-life. Her book The Dieter has been optioned by an Australian production company.
Although an avid mystery reader since childhood, Sue didn’t write mysteries until 1999 when, in collaboration with childhood friend and actress Sarajane Avidon, she published Audition for Murder the first Morgan Taylor mystery. The second, Cruising for Murder was published last year. They are now gathering information for the third book: A Voice for Murder.
