Susan Beth Pfeffer





Susan Beth Pfeffer

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Susan Beth Pfeffer was born in New York City in 1948. She grew up in the city and its nearby suburbs and spent summers in the Catskill Mountains. When she was six her father wrote and published a book on constitutional law, and Pfeffer decided that she, too, wanted to be a writer. That year she wrote her first story, about the love between an Oreo cookie and a pair of scissors. However, it wasn't until 1970 that her first book, Just Morgan, was published. She wrote it during her last semester at New York University; since then, she has been a full-time writer for young people.

She has won numerous awards and citations for her work, which range from picture books to middle-grade and young-adult novels, and include both contemporary and histo...more


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As I'm sure you remember, because I know for a fact you commit to memory every single word I write here, my lovely publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (yes, the royalty check has arrived at my agent's, so my publisher is lovely once again) created survival kits as a way of promoting The Shade Of The Moon.
I got my survival kit a couple of weeks ago, but I've been too distracted to tell you abou... Read more of this blog post »
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“I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.”
Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It

“I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.”
Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It

“If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.”
Susan Beth Pfeffer, The Dead and the Gone

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