'The adult version of a kid creating'

 

“Beinga novelist is the adult version of a kid creating a make-believe world. Butunlike a child, a writer of fiction has to come up with a structured story, onethat has as much meaning for others as it has for her.” – Susan Isaacs

 

Bornin New York City on Dec. 27, 1943, Isaacs began her writing career as afreelance political speechwriter while simultaneously serving as an editorfor Seventeen magazine.  In her mid-30s she decidedto veer away from journalism and speechwriting and try her hand atfiction.  Good move.  Her first novel (and first attempt atfiction), Compromising Positions, was chosen as a main selection ofthe Book of the Month Club and was a New York Times bestseller.

 

Sincethen she’s authored 17more books – her latest being 2023’s Bad, Bad SeymourBrown – numerous essays, screenplays, and a work of culturalcriticism, Brave Dames and Wimpettes: What Women are Really Doing onPage and Screen.

 

Inaddition to writing books and screenplays, Isaacs is a noted reviewer having reviewed both fiction andnonfiction for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, TheWashington Post, and Newsday.

 

But writing is her forte' and she said she loves the writing process.   “Thereare days where I lose track of time, of place, of everything else because I'vebeen transported to another universe. “