Susan Wise Bauer

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Susan’s most recent book for Norton, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade (2010) is the second in a four-volume series providing a narrative world history; the first volume, The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome, was published in 2007. Her previous books include the academic title The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin and Confession in America (2008), published by Princeton University Press, and The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had , a guide to reading the classic works of fiction, poetry, history, autobiography, and drama (Norton, 2003). Norton also published The Well-...more From the author's website:

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Susan’s most recent book for Norton, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade (2010) is the second in a four-volume series providing a narrative world history; the first volume, The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome, was published in 2007. Her previous books include the academic title The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin and Confession in America (2008), published by Princeton University Press, and The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had , a guide to reading the classic works of fiction, poetry, history, autobiography, and drama (Norton, 2003). Norton also published The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home (with co-author Jessie Wise); originally published in 1999, this bestselling guide to education in the classical tradition was revised and updated in 2004 and again in 2009. Susan has written a four-volume world history series for children, The Story of the World, published by Peace Hill Press (Volume 1, Ancient Times; Volume 2, The Middle Ages; Volume 3, Early Modern Times; and Volume 4, The Modern Age). She is currently at work on The Complete Writer, a K-12 writing program for home educators and private schools. Susan is also a contributing editor of Books & Culture and is preparing a lecture series for The Teaching Company.

Education
Susan’s parents taught her at home for most of elementary and middle school, and all of high school; she entered college at seventeen as a Presidential Scholar and National Merit finalist, and finished her B.A. in five semesters with a major in English, a minor in Greek and a summer spent studying twentieth century theology as a Visiting Student at Oxford. She went on to earn a Master of Divinity from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, where she added Hebrew and Aramaic to her languages. In 1994, she also completed the M.A. in English language and literature at the College of William and Mary in Virginia; her concentrations were in translation theory, seventeenth-century devotional poetry, and Psalm paraphrase in the Tudor period. Since 1994, Susan has taught writing and American literature at William & Mary, where she also received her Ph.D. in American Studies, with a major field in the history of American religion.

Personal
Susan was born in 1968, grew up in Virginia, and was educated at home by pioneering parents, back when home education was still unheard of. She learned Latin at age ten, worked as a professional musician while still in high school, and wrote three (unpublished!) novels before she turned sixteen. Since then, she has toured with a travelling drama group; galloped racehorses at a Virginia racetrack for spending money; taught horseback riding; worked in ghostwriting and newspaper ad sales; learned enough Korean to teach a Korean four-year-old Sunday school; and served as librarian and reading tutor for the Rita Welsh Adult Literacy Center in Williamsburg. Currently she runs Peace Hill Press, writes in a restored chicken shed, lectures on writing and history, helps run the farm, and cooks huge meals on a regular basis. Susan and her husband now live in rural Virginia, where Peter serves as the minister of a nondenominational church. They have three sons and a daughter; five dogs; three horses; three cats; and a variable number of chickens.(less)

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…And there was much rejoicing.

(Here, anyway. Don’t know if my editor will share that emotion when he has to READ the whole thing.)

THE WHOLE BOOK IS FINISHED.

808 pages.

235,000 words.

45 pages of works cited.

Now I’m taking a week off.

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	The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home by Susan Wise Bauer, Jessie Wise 426 avg rating — 1813 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Well-Educated Mind 392 avg rating — 702 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child: Volume 1: Ancient Times: From the Earliest Nomads to the Last Roman Emperor by Susan Wise Bauer, Jeff West (Illustrator) 421 avg rating — 692 ratings — published 2002 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome 412 avg rating — 336 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 2: The Middle Ages: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of the Renaissance, Revised Edition by Susan Wise Bauer, Jeff West (Illustrator) 421 avg rating — 336 ratings — published 2003 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 3: Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners 412 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade 411 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 4: The Modern Age: From Victoria's Empire to the End of the USSR 411 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Complete Writer: Writing With Ease: Strong Fundamentals 418 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	The Story of the World Activity Book Three: Early Modern Times by Susan Wise Bauer, Sharon Wilson (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator), Patty Ann Martirosian (Illustrator) 400 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2004	My rating:

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