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Susan Rivers began her writing career as a playwright, receiving the Julie Harris Playwriting Award and the New York Drama League Award, and working as an NEA Writer-in-Residence in San Francisco.

Her focus shifted to fiction with a move to the Carolinas in 1995. Rivers' debut novel, The Second Mrs. Hockaday, was published by Algonquin Books in 2017. It was a People Magazine "Best New Books Pick" and a Woman's Day "Editor's Desk Pick" in 2017, as well as IndieNext, Library Reads and Winter OKRA Picks, and was a Women's National Book Association Great Group Reads 2018 Selection. The novel was a finalist for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize 2017 and the Southern Book Prize 2018.

The author lives and writes in upstate South Carolina.
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Susan Rivers My paternal great-grandfather Walter Rivers is a mystery wrapped up in a conundrum, as they say, and he covered his tracks well enough that I've not b…moreMy paternal great-grandfather Walter Rivers is a mystery wrapped up in a conundrum, as they say, and he covered his tracks well enough that I've not been able to pin down his details even with the most modern digital sleuthing tools. He immigrated from England to America just as the Civil War was commencing, and fought in the Union Army as a paid replacement for a wealthy industrialist's son. The story goes that he was badly wounded as a calvary soldier and this resulted in his addiction to morphine, which eventually killed him, but I've found a letter from his brother-in-law which attributes the morphine to an injury received when he was in a railway accident. He claimed he was the black sheep in a wealthy London family, the son of a "lord," but there haven't been titleholders with the surname Rivers since the 14th century. One thing is clear: he was re-inventing himself by coming to the New World, and all the things he became beg the question of what he came from. If I could gain some objectivity on his life, and dig up a few concrete answers, it might offer the elements of a fairly good story!(less)
Susan Rivers In a small southern town live two spinster sisters who have outlived the other members of their family and have spent long years together tending a la…moreIn a small southern town live two spinster sisters who have outlived the other members of their family and have spent long years together tending a large, beautiful garden that is the pride of the neighborhood. The eldest sister becomes ill and passes away, and the day after her funeral, her surviving sister hires a man with a bulldozer to come dig up the garden -- every last camellia shrub, climbing rose, dogwood and daylily -- and dump them in the ditch that runs beside the property. (less)
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Almost everyone is familiar with O’Henry’s classic short story, The Gift of the Magi, published in 1905. This is the story of a young married couple who have little money. With Christmas approaching, Della, the wife, hopes to buy her husband, Jim, a new watch chain for the gold pocket-watch he inherited from his father. However, after shopping all day she can find nothing that she can afford. At t Read more of this blog post »
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“We are no longer blessed with innocence, nor do we deserve to be. Paradise may have been lost, but paradise is a bad bargain. It costs too much. It conceals serpents, and is littered with graves.”
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“Our enemy is [. . .] and all people like him, who never question their motives or doubt their desires. They are put on this earth to cause misery, because what they take so freely for themselves comes always at great cost to others.”
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“(How Southern I am, in that respect: still fighting my war when the battles have been lost.)”
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