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Susan Shapiro Barash

Susan Shapiro Barash

Susan Shapiro Barash is an established writer of 13 nonfiction women’s books, including Tripping the Prom Queen, Toxic Friends and You’re Grounded Forever, But First Let’s Go Shopping. For over twenty years she has taught gender studies at Marymount Manhattan College and has guest taught creative nonfiction at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. Her novels Between the Tides, A Palm Beach Wife and A Palm Beach Scandal are published under her pen name Susannah Marren. Please visit her website for more information.

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Susan Shapiro Barash

Fiction

Put Some Prep in Your Step with “The Swallows”

The dark side of boarding school has been an alluring topic for decades. Although we tend to think of boarding schools as prestigious, proper places, stories that examine the seedier side of these schools call into question the nature of clans and academia, teachers and students, as well as the…
Susan Shapiro Barash
August 13, 2019
Fiction

Julia Kelly Unites Two Women Of Different Times

There is a certain allure that comes with stories about English women—whatever year they live and thrive, however old they are. From Jane Austen’s Elizabeth Bennett to Thomas Hardy’s Bathsheba Everdene, to Anita Brookner’s Edith Hope, we are keenly invested in the trials and tribulations these women endure. That being…
Susan Shapiro Barash
January 2, 2019
Miscellany

Why The Classic Books Still Matter Today

We booklovers are book collectors, dedicated readers who revisit our own personal collections. Most of our bookcases are eclectic and reflect distinctive tastes and interests. Yet for many of us, among our precious books are those novels that are deemed “the classics.” Not every title that we own, of course,…
Susan Shapiro Barash
September 25, 2018
Fiction

The Champion of Middle-Aged Mothers Is Back!

Kate Reddy has returned in full force in Allison Pearson’s new novel with St. Martin's Press, How Hard Can It Be?  Pearson’s character, Kate, is now older, more mature, a more seasoned character. Pearson’s column, Sandwich Woman, about women in midlife who struggle with their children and their parents as both grow…
Susan Shapiro Barash
July 19, 2018

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